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 328 STRABO. CASAUB. 220. amongst the Greeks this city was highly esteemed both for its bravery and rectitude of conduct ; for they refrained from piracy, with favourable opportunities for engaging in it, and dedicated at Delphi the treasure, as it was called, of the Agyllasi ; for their country was formerly named Agylla, though now Caerea. It is said to have been founded by Pelasgi from Thessaly. The Lydians, who had taken the name of Tyr- rheni, having engaged in war against the Agyllaei, one of them, approaching the wall, inquired the name of the city ; when one of the Thessalians from the wall, instead of answering the question, saluted him with xdipe. 1 The Tyrrheni received this as an omen, and having taken the city they changed its name. This city, once so flourishing and celebrated, only preserves the traces [of its former greatness] ; the neighbouring hot springs, named Caeretana, 2 being more frequented than it, by the people attracted thither for the sake of their health. t4. Almost every one is agreed that the Pelasgi were an ancient race spread throughout the whole of Greece, but especially in the^ountry oftEe JEolians near to Thessaly. Ephorus, however, says that he considers fney wefe~ originally Arca- dians, who had taken up a warlike mode of life ; and having persuaded many others to the same course, imparted their own name to the whole, and became famous both among the Greeks, and in every other country where they chanced to come. Homer informs us that there were colonies of them in Crete, for he makes Ulysses say to Penelope " Diverse their language is ; Achaians some, And some indigenous are ; Cydonians there, Crest-shaking Dorians, and Pelasgians dwell." 3 And that portion of Thessaly between the outlets of the Peneius 4 and the Thermopylae, as far as the mountains of Pindus, is named Pelasgic Argos, the district having formerly belonged to the Pelasgi. The poet himself also gives to Do- donaean Jupiter, the epithet of Pelasgian : 1 A Grecian form of salutation, equivalent to our " good-morning." 2 Cseri, according to Holstenius, the Bagni di Sasso, Cluvier con- sidered it Bagni di Stigliano. 3 Odyssey xix. 175. And there is a different language of different men mixed together ; there are in it Achaians, and magnanimous Eteocretans, and Cydonians, and crest-shaking Dorians, and divine Pelasgians. 4 The Salambria, Costum.