(EKOTRIANS. 351 all of them names of tribes either cognate or subdivisional. 1 The Chaones or Chaonians are also found, not only in Italy, but in Epirus, as one of the most considerable of the Epirotic tribes. while Pandosia, the ancient residence of the CEnotrian kings in the southern corner of Italy,- was also the name of a township or locality in Epirus, with a neighboring river Acheron in both : from hence, and from some other similarities of name, it has been imagined that Epirots, (Enotrians, Sikels, etc., were all names of cognate people, and all entitled to be comprehended under the generic appellation of Pelasgi. That they belonged to the same ethnical kindred, there seems fair reason to presume, and also that in point of language, manners, and character, they were not very widely separated from the ruder branches of the Hellenic race. It would appear too, as far as any judgment can be formed on a point essentially obscure, that the OEnotrians were ethnically akin to the primitive population of Home and Latiuin on one Bide, 3 as they were to the Epirots on the other ; and that tribes 1 Aristot. Polit. vii, 9, 3. "Quovv 6s TO /rpdf rrjv 'la/rt'j'/av /cat rbv 'lovioi' XUVES (or Xtiofec) TIJV nat.ovfttuTiv Ziptv r/aav 6e aal oi Xwi>fc Oivurpol rd Antiochus Fr. 3, 4, 6, 7, cd. Didot ; Strabo, vi, p. 254 ; ITcsych. v, Xuwyv , Dionys. Hal. A. R. i, 12.
- Livy, viii, 24.
3 For the curly habitation of Sikels or Siculi in Latium and Campania, see Dionys. Hal. A. R. i, 1-21 : it is curious that Siculi and Sicani. whether the same or different, the primitive ante-Hellenic population of Sicily, nix also numbered as the ante-Roman population of Rome : see Virgil, JEneid, viii, 328, and Servius ad JEncld. xi, 317. The alleged ancient emigration of Evander from Arcadia to Latium forms a parallel to the emigration of CEnotrus from Arcadia to southern Italy as recounted by Pherckydes : it seems to have been mentioned even as early as in one of the Hesiodic poems (Servius ad Virg. JEn. viii, 138) : compare Steph. Byz. v, Tla)~A.dvTiov. The earliest Latin authors appear all to have recognized Evander and his Arcadian emigrants: see Dionys. Hal. i, 31-32. ii, 9, and his references to Fabitis Pictor and yElius Tubero, i, 79-80 ; also Cato ap. Solinum. c. 2. If the old reading 'Apuaduv, in Thucyd. vi, 2 (which Bekker has now altered into St*e/.uv), be retained, Thucydides would also stand as witness for a migration from Arcadia into Italy. A third emigration of Pelasgi, from Peloponnesus to the river Sarnus n southern Italy (near Pompeii), was mentioned by Conon (ap. Scrviuru a- Virg. JEn, vii, 730)
