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 1 I HISTORY OF GREECE. il:ite assigned by Thucydides will thus agree with the distance in which Temenus, Kresphontes, and Aristodemus, stand removed from Hlrakles. The interval of eighty years, between the cap- ture of Troy and the Return of the Herakleids, appears to have been admitted by Apollodorus and Eratosthenes, and some other professed chronologists of antiquity : but there were different reckonings which also found more or less of support. SECTION II. MIGRATION OF THESSALIAXS AND BtEOTIANS. In the same passage in which Thucydides speaks of the Return of the Herakleids, he also marks out the date of another event a little antecedent, which is alleged to have powerfully affected the condition of Northern Greece. " Sixty years after the capture of Troy (he tells us) the Boeotians were driven by the Thessa- lians from Arne, and migrated into the land then called Kadmei's, but now Bosotia, wherein there had previously dwelt a section of their race, who had contributed the contingent to the Trojan war." The expulsion here mentioned, of the Boeotians from ArnS " by the Thessalians," has been construed, with probability, to allude to the immigration of the Thessalians, properly so called, from the Thesprotid in Epirus into Thessaly. That the Thessa- lians had migrated into Thessaly from the Thesprotid territory, is stated by Herodotus, 1 though he says nothing about time ox- circumstances. Antiphus and Pheidippus appear in the Homeric Catalogue as commanders of the Grecian contingent from the islands of Kos and Karpathus, on the south-east coast of Asia Minor : they are sons of Thessalus, who is himself the son of Herakles. A legend ran that these two chiefs, in the dispersion which ensued after the victory, had been driven by storms into the Ionian Gulf, and cast upon the coast of Epirus, where they landed and settled at Ephyre in the Thesprotid. 2 It Avas Thes- 1 Herod, vii. 176. Reisk, Velleius Patercul. i. 1 ). The Scholia on Lycophron (912) give a story somewhat different. Ephyr3 given as the old legendary name of the city of Krannon in Thessaly ( Kineaa
 * See the Epigram ascribed to Aristotle (Antholog. Graze, t. L p. 181, cd.