302 FROM TITHOREA, 
CHAP. Thronium. At the same time, somethinp- should 
Tin. . . 
*• — ^^ be said oiCnemis ; for the mountain of this name, 
whence the Locri Epicnemidii received their 
pecuHar appellation, was contiguous to Mount 
CEta, and to the GulpJi of Media ; and the 
characteristic description given of the town of 
Cnemis in two words (^^u^iov l^v^/^vov) by Strata 
may be considered as applicable to the situa- 
tion of the present citadel ; but the position of 
Bodonitza, respecting the XEIMAPPOI flowing 
by it to the gulph, added to the correspondence 
of its appearance with the evident etymology of 
Thronium, and the difficulty of assigning to the 
latter any other situation, afford strong pre- 
sumption for believing that it stood here. It 
must however be confessed, that this is not the 
spot where Thronium is placed, according to 
the observations of MtUtius, in his Geography '. 
He would infer, from an inscription found at a 
place called Palceo-castro, that the site of Thro- 
nium was elsewhere. The references we have 
already made to Ptolemy and Straho decidedly 
prove that it was not upon the shore ; but the 
latter mentions a port, distant twenty stadia from 
(1) Qoiviov, <rou (f^'Ucu o to~o; xxXurai xsivai; Hxkciio:icr.rTpa ii; t« M'cfuxfX. 
Mek'tius says he savr there this inscription : 
TAIBOTAAIKAITniAAMniePONIEnN. 
