IX. 
Cremaste. 
LARISSA. 347 
is relating an expedition of the Romans from chap. 
the northern point of Euhoea to the opposite 
continent, to attack Larissa Cremaste; but it 
does not hence follow that this city was upon 
the coast : indeed, the words of Siraho decidedly 
prove the contrary'. It had also the name of 
Pelasgia*; and it had been called Cremaste from 
its situation, (being as it were suspended) upon 
a high rock. It is therefore not improbable that Larissa 
this may have been an antient citadel of the 
more modern Larissa upon the Pentus, at some 
considerable distance from the other, and in a 
precipitous situation, above the plain. The 
author thinks he can almost prove this to have 
been true ; for the inhabitants now give the 
name of old Larissa to a Falceo-castro which 
is upon some very high rocks, at four hours 
distance towards the east. The place is visible 
from Larissa. This Palceo-castro, therefore, may 
have been Larissa Cremaste, if it were not 
also the Pelasgicon Argos of Homer, where 
ylchilles reigned, and whence he received the 
appellation of Larissceus\ And perhaps we may 
(3) 'En fi'.aoya'ia lar)v H KPEMA2TH AAPI22A, x.r.X. Strabonis 
Geog. lib. is. p. 650. ci. Oxon. 
(4) 'H 1' aurri filt HEAASriA Xiyo/iUn. Ibid. 
(5) " Quos neque Tydides, nee Larisseeus Achilles, 
Non anni domuere decern, non mille carinae."— Firg.^n.Il. 1 79. 
Jupiter 
