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B. ix. c. v. 1113. THESSALY. 137 CEneiadze, and Anticyra, of the same name as the town among the Locri Hesperii. I do not mean that these divisions al- ways continued the same, for they underwent various changes. The most remarkable, however, are worthy of notice. 11. The poet with sufficient clearness describes the situation of the Dolopes, as at the extremity of Phthia, and says that both they and the Phthiotse were under the command of the same chief, Peleus ; " I lived," he says, " at the farthest part of Phthia, king of the Dolopes." 1 Peleus, however, had conferred on him the authority. This region is close to Pindus, and the places about it, most of which belong to the Thessalians. For in consequence of the renown and ascendency of the Thessalians and Mace- donians, those Epeirotse, who bordered nearest upon them, be- came, some voluntarily, others by force, incorporated among the Macedonians and Thessalians. In this manner the Atha- manes, -^Ethices, and Talares were joined to the Thessalians, and the Orestre, Pelagones, and Elimiota3 to the Macedonians. 12. Pindus is a large mountain, having on the north Mace- donia, on the west Perrhaebi, settlers from another country, on the south Dolopes, [and on the east Hestia30tis] which belongs to Thessaly. Close upon Pindus dwelt Talares, a tribe of Molotti, detached from the Molotti about Mount Tomarus, and ^thices, among whom the poet says the Cen- taurs took refuge when expelled by Peirithous. 2 They are at present, it is said, extinct. But this extinction is to be understood in two senses ; either the inhabitants have been exterminated, and the country deserted, or the name of the nation exists no longer, or the community does not pre- serve its ancient form. Whenever the community, which continues, is insignificant, we do not think it worth while to record either its existence or its change of name. But when it has any just pretensions to notice, it is necessary to remark the change which it has undergone. 13. It remains for us to describe the tract of sea-coast sub- ject to Achilles: .we begin from Thermopylae, for we have spoken of the coast of Locris, and of the interior. Thermopylas is separated from the Cenaeum by a strait 70 stadia across. Coasting beyond the Pyla3, it is at a distance from the Spercheius of about 10, (60?) and thence to Phalara 1 II. ix. 484. 2 n. iit 744.