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 144 STRABO. CASAUB. 439. possessed the part towards the sea and the Peneius, as far as l its mouth and the city Gyrton, belonging to the district Per- rhaebis. Afterwards the Lapithae, Ixion and his son Peiri- thous, having reduced the Perrhsebi, 2 got possession of these places. Peirithous took possession also of Pelion, having ex- pelled by force the Centaurs, a savage tribe, who inhabited it. These " he drove from Pelion to the" neighbourhood of the ^Ethices, ' 3 but he delivered up the plains to the Lapithse. The Perrhrebi kept possession of some of these parts, those, namely, towards Olympus, and in some places they lived intermixed altogether with the Lapithge. Argissa, the present Argura, is situated upon the banks of the Peneius. Atrax lies above it at the distance of 40 stadia, close to the river. The intermediate country along the side of the river was occupied by Perrhaabi. Some call Orthe the citadel of the Phalannaei. Phalanna is a Perrhaabic city on the Peneius, near Tempe. The Perrhsebi, oppressed by the Lapithaa, retreated in great numbers to the mountainous country about Pindus, and to the Athamanes and Dolopes ; but the Larisaei became masters of the country and of the Perrha3bi who remained there. The Larissei lived near the Peneius, but in the neighbourhood of the Perrha3bi. They occupied the most fertile portion of the plains, except some of the very deep valleys near the lake Nessonis, into which the river, when it overflowed, usually carried away a portion of the arable ground belonging to the Larisaei, who afterwards remedied this by making embank- ments. These people were in possession of Perrha3bia, and levied imposts until Philip became master of the country. Larisa is a place situated on Ossa, and there is Larisa Cremaste, by some called Pelasgia. In Crete also is a city Larisa, the inhabitants of which were embodied with those of Hierapytna ; and from this place the plain below is called the Larisian plain. In Peloponnesus the citadel of the Argives is 1 Meineke suggests the reading fttraZv, between, instead of /^XjOi, as far as. 2 The words after Penhaebi, et rijv iv ry fiecroyaiq. Trorotjuiav, into the country in the interior lying along the river, are omitted, as suggested by Meineke. 3 II. ii. 744.