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 500 STRABO. CASAUB. 327. bearing his name, where also he had built a city called Orestic Argos. With these people are intermixed Illyrian nations, some of whom are situated on the southern part of the moun- tainous district, and others above the Ionian Gulf. For above Epidamnus and Apollonia, as far as the Ceraunian mountains, live the Bulliones, Taulantii, Parthini, and Brygi. 1 Somewhere near are the silver mines of Damastium. Here the Perisadyes had established their sway, and Enchelii, who are also called Sesarethii. Then come the Lyncestae, the ter- ritory Deuriopus, Pelagonia-Tripolitis, the Eordi, Elimia, and Eratyra. Formerly each of these nations was under its own prince. The chiefs of the Enchelii were descendants of Ca'dmus arid Harmonia, and scenes of the fables respecting these persons are shown in the territory. This nation, there- fore, was not governed by native princes. The Lyncestas were under Arrhabasus, who was of the race of the Bacchi- adas. Irra was his daughter, and his grand-daughter was Eurydice, the mother of Philip Amyntas. The Molotti also were Epirotae, and were subjects of Pyr- rhus Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, and of his descendants, who were Thessalians. The rest were governed by native princes. Some tribes were continually endeavouring to ob- tain the mastery over the others, but all were finally subdued by the Macedonians, except a few situated above the Ionian Gulf. They gave the name of Upper Macedonia to the country about Lyncestis, Pelagonia, Orestias, and Elimia. Later writers called it Macedonia the Free, and some extend the name of Macedonia to all the country as far as Corcyra, at the same time assigning as their reasons, the mode of cut- ting their hair, their language, the use of the chlamys, and similar things in which they resemble the Macedonians ; some of them, however, speak two languages. On the dissolution of the Macedonian empire, they fell under the power of the Romans. The Egnatian Way, from Epidamnus and Apollonia, passes through the territory of these people. Near the road to Can- davia are the lakes about Lychnidus, which furnish large supplies of fish for salting, and rivers, some of which empty 1 These nations are mentioned by other authors; they were probably separated by the numerous mountain ridges to the west of Pindus. See below, 9. But compare D'Anville and the Austrian military map.