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 148 STRABO. CASAUB. 443 be assigned to the Magnetes. I have said in the description of Macedonia, that Homolium is near Ossa at the beginning of the course which the Peneius takes through Terape. If we are to extend their possessions as far as the sea-coast, which is very near Homolium, there is reason for assigning to them Rhizus, and Erymnae, which lies on the sea-coast in the tract subject to Philoctetes and Eumelus. Let this however remain unsettled. For the order in which the places as i'ar as the Peneius follow one another, is not clearly expressed, and as the places are not of any note, we need not consider that uncertainty as very important. The coast of Sepias, however, is mentioned by tragic writers, and was chaunted in songs on account of the destruction of the Persian fleet. It consists of a chain of rocks. Between Sepias and Casthana3a, a village situated below Pelion, is the sea-shore, where the fleet of Xerxes was lying, when an east wind began to blow violently ; some of the ves- sels were forced on shore, and immediately went to pieces ; others were driven on Hipnus, a rocky spot near Pelion, others were lost at Melibcea, others at Casthanasa. ,The whole of the coasting voyage along Pelion, to the ex- tent of about 80 stadia, is among rocks. That along Ossa is of the same kind and to the same extent. Between them is a bay of more than 200 stadia in extent, upon which is situated Meliboea. The whole voyage from Demetrias, including the winding of the bays, to the Peneius is more than 1000 stadia, from the Spercheius 800 stadia more, and from the Euripus 2350 stadia. Hieronymus assigns a circuit of 3000 stadia to the plain country in Thessaly and Magnesia, and says, that it was in- habited by Pelasgi, but that these people were driven into Italy by Lapitha3, and that the present Pelasgic plain is that in which are situated Larisa, Gyrton, Phera3, Mopsium, Boe- beis, Ossa, Homole, Pelion, and Magnetis. Mopsium has not its name from Mopsus, the son of Manto the daughter of Teiresias, but from Mopsus, one" of the Lapithce, who sailed with the Argonauts. Mopsopus, from whom Attica is called Mopsopia, is a different person. 23. This then is the account of the several parts of Thes- saly.