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 SOS ABCOS AHPHILOGHICUM. bnc'iots for 100 yean. (Thnc iij. lOS— 114; Grate, EUf. of GrtKt, ToL vi. p. «08, &c,} Ws hum little toon of tha bUtory of Ai^os. Some time after ttu dettli of Alaunder Ibe Great, it fell into the lumdi of the Aetoliuu, together with the not of Ambnda: uid it was hen tlmt the Roman general, M- FuItIua, toolE up his tjuiirters, irhen he concloded the treat; between Borne and the Aetolians. (Ljy. uiviii. 10; Pol. uii. 13.) Upim the foundation of Nieopolia bj Angnstm, after the battle of ActiutD, the inhabitants of Argoe were rcmored to the former city, ai>d Argoa waa I. Bail ofKenaiara. k Creoae (^rtnyro). i. Olpac (^Arapi). I. UetrofnhB. '. Tbe ({later Idomene. I. The Issier Idometie (^Paieopfryo). ABGOS AMPHILOCHICUU. henoeforth deserted. (Anth. Oraec. ii. 553.) It in, however, menlioiwd bj later writera. (Plin. it, 1; Mel. u. 3; Ptol. iii. U.) Tbe site of Argoe baa been a anbject of di&pute. Tbucjdides sije (iii. 105). that it wae eitoated oa the sea. Poljbius (uii. 13) describes it as digtut 180 stadia, and Utj (uim. 10) 22 miles fkm Anibracia. Leake places it in the plain of Vlikitat at the modem village of NeokAori, where are the mins of an ancient citr, the walls of which wen about a tnile in dicnmfeieDee. The chief objection to NeotAori as the eite of Ai-goa is, that Iftoklurri a dtoated at a short distance fnrm the coast; whereas ThncTdldes, as we bare already seen, de- scribes Argoa as a muitiiDe dtj. But it is vtrj probable that the marsh or lagoon, which now se- pantea Neokhori from the inlet of Amgro, mij We been rendered ehallower than it was formerlj' by aUuvial depositioiis, and that it may once faaie afibrded ■ eommadioas harbour to Argo*. Tbe dis- lance of NeoiAon from the ruins of Ambradu ca- nsponds to the distance assigned by Poiybios aod Livy between Argos and Ambmcia. Xear NtalAori also ia the river of Ariadha^ correspimding to the lnachoa,oa which Argos is said to have been situated. The only other mins in the neighbonihood, which could be reguded as the remains of Argoa, are those further south, at the head of the bay of Kercatara, which Lientfinant Wolfe, who visited the country in 1830, snppoees to have been the site of Argoe: hut there ar« strong reasons for believing that this is the site of Limniea [Lihnaea]. Fixing the ute of Argoa at Neokhori, we are able to identify the other places mentioned in the history of the eani|«ign of b. c. i26. Cmue probably corresponds to Anayro on the coast, SW. of Argoa; and Olpaa to Arapi, also on the unst, NW. of Argoa, at both of whkh places there are HeQeoio leniMDS. At Ar<^ at present there is a consicler- ahla lagom, which wu piobably not so large in an- dent times. The ravine, whidi sepuatod the anny of Demosthenes &om that of EuT7locfaus, seems to have been the torrent which enters the la^^oou frwn the north, and MetropoUs to have been a place on ita right bank, at the southern eitreraitv of the moonUins called Matriaara. ThncyJidw ei- pressly mentions Olpae and Metropolis as two dif- ferent places; and there ia no nasou to suppose them only difierent names of one place, as some mo- dem commentators have done. The pass, where Demccthenca gained his seciHid victory over tlia Am- bisdots, is the pass of Matrinaro, which is one cf the most important in this part of Greece. The southern extremity of the mountain cnrespeods to the grsater Idomene, which Demoatbenn occn- ]sed; while the northern eitremity, where the Am- bnciots were attacked, was the lesser Idimene. On the latter are nnnains of andent fortifications, which bear the name of Paiiopyrgo. This account will be rendered dearer by the plan oi lumn. Tbeoutliueoftheco '