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 158 STRABO. CASAUB. 450. Euboea. There was a Euboea in Sicily, founded by the Chalcideans, who were settled there. It was destroyed by Gelon, and became a strong-hold of the Syracusans. In Cor- cyra also, and at Lemnus, there was a place called Euboea, and a hill of this name in the Argive territory. 16. We have said, that JEtolians, Acarnanians, and Atha- manes are situated to the west of the Thessalians and CEtae- ans, if indeed we must call the Athamanes, 1 Greeks. It re- mains, in order that we may complete the description of Greece, to give some account of these people, of the islands which lie nearest to Greece, and are inhabited by Greeks, which we have not yet mentioned. CHAPTER II. 1. JExoLiANS and Acarnanians border on one an'other, having between them the river Achelous, 2 which flows from the north, and from Pindus towards the south, through the country of the Agraei, an ^Etolian tribe, and of the Amphi- lochians. Acarnanians occupy the western side of the river as far as the Ambracian Gulf, 3 opposite to the Amphilochians, and the temple of Apollo Actius. ^Etolians occupy the part towards the east as far as the Locri Ozolae, Parnassus, and the (Etaeans. Amphilochians are situated above the Acarnanians in the interior towards the north; above the Amphilochians are situated Dolopes, and Mount Pindus ; above the .ZEtolians are Perrhoebi, Athamanes, and a body of the -ZEnianes who occupy (Eta. The southern side, as well the Acarnanian as the JEtolian, is washed by the sea, forming the Corinthian Gulf, into which the Achelous empties itself. This river (at its mouth) is the boundary of the ^Etolian and the Acarnanian coast. The Achelous was formerly called Thoas. There is a river of this name near Dyme, 4 as we have said, and another near Lamia. 5 We have also said, 6 that the mouth of this river is 1 B. viii. c. vii. 1. * The Aspropotamo. 3 G. of Arta. 4 B. viii. c. iii. 11. 5 B. ix. c. v. 10. 6 B. viii. c. ii. $ 3.