Greek Texts & Translations

$Oeneiadae, and Anticyra, of the same name as the town among the Locri Hesperii. I do not mean that these divisions always 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 Phthiotae were under the command of the same chief, Peleus; I lived, he says, at the farthest part of Phthia, king of the Dolopes. ^note
Il. ix. 484. 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 Macedonians, those Epeirotae, who bordered nearest upon them, became, some voluntarily, others by force, incorporated among the Macedonians and Thessalians. In this manner the Athamanes, Aethices, and Talares were joined to the Thessalians, and the Orestae, Pelagones, and Elimiotae to the Macedonians. 12

Pindus is a large mountain, having on the north Macedonia, on the west Perrhaebi, settlers from another country, on the south Dolopes, [and on the east Hestiaeotis] which belongs to Thessaly. Close upon Pindus dwelt Talares, a tribe of Molotti, detached from the Molotti about Mount Tomarus, and Aethices, among whom the poet says the Centaurs took refuge when expelled by Peirithous. ^note 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 preserve 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 subject to Achilles: we begin from Thermopylae, for we have spoken of the coast of Locris, and of the interior.

Thermopylae is separated from the Cenaeum by a strait 70 stadia across. Coasting beyond the Pylae, it is at a distance from the Spercheius of about 10, (60?) and thence to Phalara