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 172 STRABO. CASAUB. 460. dorus, as I have said before, places Chalcis and Taphiassus above Molycria ; and Calydon between Pleuron and Chalcis. Are we then to place one mountain of the name of Chalcia near Pleuron, and another of the name of Chalcis near Molycria ? Near Calydon is a large lake, abounding with fish. It be- longs to the Romans of Patrre. 22. Apollodorus says, that there is in the inland parts of Acarnania, a tribe of Erysichrei, mentioned by Alcman, " not an Erysicheean, nor a shepherd ; but I came from the extremities of Sardis." Olenus belonged to ^Etolia ; Homer mentions it in the lian Catalogue, 1 but traces alone remain of it near Pleuron below Aracynthus. 2 Lysimachia also was near Olenus. This place has disap- peared. It was situated upon the lake, the present Lysirna- chia, formerly Hydra, between Pleuron and the city Arsinoe, 3 formerly a village of the name of Conopa. It was founded by Arsinoe, wife and also sister of the second Ptolemy. It is conveniently situated above the passage across the Achelous. Pylene has experienced nearly the same fate as Olenus. When the poet describes Calydon 4 as lofty, and rocky, we must understand these epithets as relating to the character of the country. For we have said before, that when they di- vided the country into two parts, they assigned the moun- tainous portion and the Epictetus 5 to Calydon, and the tract of plains to Pleuron. 23. The Acarnanians, and the ^Etolians, like many other nations, are at present worn out, and exhausted by continual wars. The JEtolians however, in conjunction with the Acar- nanians, during a long period withstood the Macedonians and the other Greeks, and lastly the Romans, in their contest for independence. But since Homer, and others, both poets and historians, frequently mention them, sometimes in clear and undisputed terms, and sometimes less explicitly, as appears from what we have already said of these people., we must avail ourselves of some of the more ancient accounts, which will supply us with 1 II. ii. 639. 2 M. Zigos. 3 Angelo Castron.
 * Near Mauro Mali. 5 See c. ii. 3, Epictetus.