Greek Texts & Translations

Aegean Sea is called Boos-Aule, (or the Cow's Stall.) where lo is said to have brought forth Epaphus, so the island may have had the name Euboea ^note on this account.

It was also called Oché, which is the name of one of the largest mountains ^note there.

It had the name of Ellopia, from Ellops, the son of Ion; according to others, he was the brother of Aeclus, and Cothus, who is said to have founded Ellopia, ^note a small place situated in the district called Oria of the Histiaeotis, near the mountain Telethrius. ^note He also possessed Histiaea, Perias, Cerinthus, Aedepsus, ^note and Orobie, where was an oracle very free from deception. There also was an oracle of Apollo Selinuntius.

The Ellopians, after the battle of Leuctra, were compelled by the tyrant Philistides to remove to the city Histiea, and augmented the number of its inhabitants. Demosthenes ^note says that Philistides was appointed by Philip tyrant of the Oreitae also, for afterwards the Histiaeans had that name, and the city, instead of Histiaea, was called Oreus. According to some writers, Histiaea was colonized by Athenians from the demus of the Histiaeeis, as Eretria was from the demus of the Eretrieis. But Theopompus says, that when Pericles had reduced Euboea, the Histiaeans agreed to remove into Macedonia, and that two thousand Athenians, who formerly composed the demus of the Histiaeans, came, and founded Oreus. ^note 4

It is situated below Mount Telethrius, at a place called Drymus, near the river Callas, on a lofty rock; ^note whence perhaps because the Ellopians, the former inhabitants, were a mountain tribe, ^note the city had the name of Oreus. Orion, who was brought up there, seems to have had his name from the place. But according to some writers, the Oreitae, who had a