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 LOCAL DIVERSITY. 233 the other, but eacli of the various tribes which went to compose these categories, had its peculiarities ; and the marked contrast between Athenians and Boeotians was supposed to be represented by the light and heavy atmosphere which they respectively breathed. Nor was this all : for, even among the Boeotian aggre- gate, every town had its own separate attributes, physical as well as moral and political i 1 Oropus, Tanagra, Thespise, Thebes, Authedon, Haliartus, Koroneia, Onchestus, and Plataea, were known to Boeotians each by its own characteristic epithet : and Dikasarchus even notices a marked distinction between the inhab- itants of the city of Athens and those in the country of Attica. Sparta, Argos, Corinth, and Sikyon, though all called Doric, had each its own dialect and peculiarities. All these differences. depending in part upon climate, site, and other physical consid- erations, contributed to nourish antipathies, and to perpetuate that imperfect cohesion, which has already been noticed as an indelible feature in Hellas. The Epirotic tribes, neighbors of the JEtolians and Akarna nians, filled the space between Piiidus and the Ionian sea until they joined to the northward the territory inhabited by the pow- erful and barbarous Illyrians. Of these Illyrians, the native Macedonian tribes appear to have been an outlying section, dwelling northward of Thessaly and Mount Olympus, eastward of the chain by which Pindus is continued, and westward of the river Axius. The Epirots were comprehended under the various denominations of Chaonians, Molossians, Thesprotians, Kasso- pasans, Amphilochians, Athamanes, the JEthlkes, Tymphasi, Orestae, Parorasi, and Atintanes, 2 most of the latter being small communities dispersed about the mountainous region of 1 Dikscarch. Fragm. p. 145, ed. Fuhr Bfof ''EMidtior. 'laropovai 6* oi BoiuTol rd KO.T' avToiJf imupxovTa I6ia uK?.j]p^ftaTa licyovree ravra Ttjv fiev aifr%poKp6eiav KUTOIKEIV iv 'Qpurru, rbv de 6i?6vov iv Tavdypq,, rijv QihoveiKiav kv QEcmaif, rrjv vppiv iv QqfJaie, r>jv ir^eove^iav kv 'A.v&rjdovi, TTJV Trepiepyiav sv Kopuveia, kv H%araiai TIJV u?M6viav, rdv Trvperbv iv Oy^^orw, 7/;v uvaia-dijciav kv 'AAiapru. About the distinction between 'A&rivaioi and 'ATTIKOI, see the same work, p. 141. 1 Strabo, vii. pp. 322, 324, 326, Thucydid. ii. OS. Theoporapna (ap Strab. 1. c.) reckoned 14 Epirotic