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Onchestus: a grove. It is situate in the country of Haliartus and was founded by Onchestus the Boeotian, as Hesiod says.

There is also a plain of Aega bordering on Cirrha, according to Hesiod.

But Hesiod says that Pelasgus was autochthonous.

That this tribe (the Pelasgi) were from Arcadia, Ephorus states on the authority of Hesiod; for he says:

"Sons were born to god-like Lycaon whom Pelasgus once begot."

Pallantium. A city of Arcadia, so named after Pallas, one of Lycaon's sons, according to Hesiod.

"Famous Meliboea bare Phellus the good spearman."

In Hesiod in the second Catalogue:

"Who once hid the torch within." 175