Volume 1

The Roman antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis / translated into English; with notes and dissertations. By Edward Spelman.

  • Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Date:
1758
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Credit: The Roman antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis / translated into English; with notes and dissertations. By Edward Spelman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which was, then, called Haemonia, and, now, Theflalia: The leaders of the colony were Achaeus, Phthius, and Pelafg ns the fons of Larifla, and Neptune. When they were arrived in Haemonia, they drove out the Barbarians, who were the inhabitants of it, and divided the country into three parts, calling them after the names of their commanders, Phthiotis Achaia, and Pelafgiotis. After they had remained there five generations, during which, they arrived to the greateft prof- perity, enjoying the moft fertil plains in Theflaly, in the fixth generation, they were driven out of it by the Curetes, and Leleges, who are now called Aetoli, and Locri, and by many others, who inhabit the parts near Parnafliis, their enemies being commanded by Deucalion, the fon of Pro¬ metheus, and of Clymene, the daughter of Oceanus. XVIII. And, difperfing themfelves in their flight, 52 fome went into Crete ; others pofiefled themfelves of fome of the iflands, called Cyclades; fome inhabited the country, called Heftiotis, near Olympus and Ofla; others went into Boeotia, Phocis, and Euboea; fome, tranfporting themfelves into S4’ ol JU£V K^luv ct7Tt]\9ov. CtC. IwTroOooj ccyt <pVKx The different fettlements of this wan- Tuv v««W*o»e. dering people are taken notice of by d gtrab0 wh0 quotes the authority of al geographers; efpeciaUy, by Homer, Ho f ks of their inhabiting whofe authority in geography ,s little thofc COU[ftries and many others° inferior to That he has, fo defervedly, ticularl that they fettled in the acquired m poetry. He mentions the ;Qancj cf j_,efhos, which, from them, Pelafgi in Crete, was canecjpe]afgia. And, after fhewing n h kvhmf, that they lived alfo at Athens, he fays, AopufriwxaHX'flmniiBtoryoiK. the Athenians called them nt\agyw. He alfo takes notice of their inhabiting Storks, becaufe they wandered from the plains of Theffaly near LarifTa, one place to another, b Odyf. r. 177. c Iliad. /3. f. 840. d B. v. p. 338. G Aha, VOL. I.