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The history and antiquities of the Doric race, / by C.O. Müller, ... ; Translated from the German by Henry Tufnell, Esq. and George Cornewall Lewis, Esq.

Karl Otfried Müller

Date:: MDCCCXXX. [1830]

Credit: The history and antiquities of the Doric race, / by C.O. Müller, ... ; Translated from the German by Henry Tufnell, Esq. and George Cornewall Lewis, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Ithome, and Tricca, were under the dominion of that people. Our reason is, that the Lapithae, Hia- tus, Coeneus, Mopsus, Coronus, Eurytus and Hippo- daineia, were considered by popular tradition as in- habitants of the above towns ; a belief indicated by the names of several of these heroes. The two last of these towns were the native jhaces of the Ascle- l^iadae, whom the genealogical and other legends al- ways represent as connected with the Lapithae. In Homer the inhabitants of Tricca, Ithome, and CEcha- lia are represented as following the sons of JKscula- pius; those of Argissa, Gyrton, Orthe, Elone and Oloossum are headed by the descendants of the La- pithae. Now from the researches mentioned by Strabo, it would seem that Orthe was the fortress of Phalanna, Argissa the town Argura, both on the river Peneus; Elone was a small town on mount Olympus, as also Oloossum®; and it appears that the Homeric catalogue agrees well enough with the other traditions, and supposes the Lapithae to have occupied the valley of the Peneus, with some parts of the mountainous country to the north. 7. Thus much it was necessary to premise, in order to give a faithful description of the spot in which the Dorians first make their appearance in the traditions of Greece. They bordered on the La- pithae, but inhabited the mountain district of Hesti- ieotis, according to Herodotus h instead of the chain- If Oloosson is the modern ynp avrr] ia-r'iv T] apTL XeyopivT) Alassona on the road from La- ’'E'kaa-aav. rissa to Macedonia, according ‘ See above, §. i. Andron to the opinion of Eustathius ap. Strab. X. p. 47S E. ad II. B. p. 333. ed. Rom. boKel Aapidos nporepov, vvv be 'Eoriat- be (\)vKa(T(TeLv Ka'i vvv rfjv KXrjaiv coriSoy \eyop.evr]s. The Dorians napacfjOeipopevrjv ^ap^apiKws, IWs also dwelt in HestiiEotis to the$