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 272 PLINY's IfATUEAL UISTOllY. [Book IV. try Mount Pindus is situate, the Cassiop8ei the Dryopes^, the Sellse^, the Hellopes**, the Molossi, iu whose territory is the temple of the Dodouaean Jupiter, so famous for its oracle ; and Mount Tomarus^, so highly praised by Theopompus, with its hundred springs gushing from its foot. (2.) Epirus, properly so called, advances towards Mag- nesia and Macedonia, having at its back the Dassaretse, previously® mentioned, a free nation, and after them the Dardani, a savage race. On the left hand, before the Dardani are extended the Triballi and the nations of Moesia, while in front of them the Medi and the Denselatae join, and next to them the Thracians, who stretch away as far as the !5^uxine : in such a manner is a rampart raised around the lofty heights of Ehodope, and then of Hsemus. On the coast of Epirus is the fortress of Chiraapra^, situate upon the Acroceraunian range, and below it the spring known as the E-oyal Waters^ ; then the towns of of Kamarina. Its extensive ruins are still to be seen. 2 Their district, according to Pouqueville, was in the present Canton of DrynopoHs. ^ The SelU or SeUce Uved in the vicinity of the temple of Jupiter at Dodona, in the modern canton of Souli, according to Pouqueville. ■^ The country about Dodona is called Hellopia by Hesiod. By some the HeUi or Hellopes are considered the same as the SelU. Pouqueville tliinks that the HeUopes dwelt in the modern cantons of Janina, Pogo- niani, Sarachovitzas, and Com-endas, and that the temple of Jupiter stood at the spot now called Proskynisis, near Gardiki, the town of Dodona being near Castritza. Leake is of the same opinion as to the site of the town ; but, as lias been a svibject of rem.ark, it is the only place of celebrity in Greece of which the situation is not exactly known. Leake however thinks that the temple stood on the peninsula now occupied by the citadel of Joanina. 5 Pouqueville thinks that tliis is the hill to be seen at the modern vii- lage of Gardiki. He is also of opiuion that the springs here mentioned are those at the modem village of Besdounopoulo. His opinions however on these points have not been imphcitly received. 6 B. iii. c. 26. The Dardani, TribaUi, and Moesi are mentioned in c. 29. The locahties of the other tribes here mentioned are not known with any exactness. ' It retains the same name or that of Khimara, and gives its name to the Acroceraunian range. It was situate at the foot of the chain, whicii begins at this spot. ^ " Aquae regise." Pouqueville suggests, without good reason, as An- eart tliinks, that tliis spring was situate near the modern Drimodez or Dermadez.
 * Cassiope or Cassope stood near the sea, and near the present village