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ANCIENT CITY NEAR MESALOGG10N. 101
Cyriac of Ancona says that in his time (1436) GEniadai was called
Trigardon : he mentions a theatre, two citadels, and polygon walls.
I understand there are some ruins answering this description near
the mouth of the Acheloos, on its west bank, and of greater extent
than the city near Natoliko. Ortelius will have it that Dragamestre is
(Eniadai; but that place is at least thirty-six miles to the north-west
of the ruins in question.
The autonomous copper coins of (Eniadai are not uncommon,
and generally have the head of Jupiter on one side, and that of
Acheloos on the other, represented as Sophocles describes it in
his Trachiniae, under the form of a human face, with horns, upon
a bull's neck, round which is the inscription OINIAAAN.
This symbolical representation1 of rivers is seen on several coins of
Italy, particularly Naples, Capua, Nola, iEsernia, Cales, Compul-
teria, Suessa, and Teanum. The same type is also on the Sicilian
coins of Gelas, Tauromenium, Agyrina, Aluntium, and Eubcea.
The limits of .ZEtolia and Acarnania appear formerly to have un-
dergone many changes ; partly owing to natural causes, and partly to
the unsettled state of the governments of the two neighbouring na-
tions ; and these circumstances have occasioned great difficulties to
those travellers who would now wish to ascertain the localities of an-
cient cities.
Strabo according to all appearance never visited this part of
Greece; to which may be attributed his numerous errors and contra-
dictions. Many difficulties also arise from the omissions in his manu-
scripts, and the interpolations of copyists. He makes the distance
from the mouths of the Acheloos and Evenos only one hundred
stadia; it is however at least seventeen miles.
1 See upon this subject, MilliugenRecueil de quelque medailles Grecques ined. pub. at Rome
»n 1812, p. 6, &c.; and the opinions of Eckhel Doct. Num. Veter. t. 1. p. 129.
Cyriac of Ancona says that in his time (1436) GEniadai was called
Trigardon : he mentions a theatre, two citadels, and polygon walls.
I understand there are some ruins answering this description near
the mouth of the Acheloos, on its west bank, and of greater extent
than the city near Natoliko. Ortelius will have it that Dragamestre is
(Eniadai; but that place is at least thirty-six miles to the north-west
of the ruins in question.
The autonomous copper coins of (Eniadai are not uncommon,
and generally have the head of Jupiter on one side, and that of
Acheloos on the other, represented as Sophocles describes it in
his Trachiniae, under the form of a human face, with horns, upon
a bull's neck, round which is the inscription OINIAAAN.
This symbolical representation1 of rivers is seen on several coins of
Italy, particularly Naples, Capua, Nola, iEsernia, Cales, Compul-
teria, Suessa, and Teanum. The same type is also on the Sicilian
coins of Gelas, Tauromenium, Agyrina, Aluntium, and Eubcea.
The limits of .ZEtolia and Acarnania appear formerly to have un-
dergone many changes ; partly owing to natural causes, and partly to
the unsettled state of the governments of the two neighbouring na-
tions ; and these circumstances have occasioned great difficulties to
those travellers who would now wish to ascertain the localities of an-
cient cities.
Strabo according to all appearance never visited this part of
Greece; to which may be attributed his numerous errors and contra-
dictions. Many difficulties also arise from the omissions in his manu-
scripts, and the interpolations of copyists. He makes the distance
from the mouths of the Acheloos and Evenos only one hundred
stadia; it is however at least seventeen miles.
1 See upon this subject, MilliugenRecueil de quelque medailles Grecques ined. pub. at Rome
»n 1812, p. 6, &c.; and the opinions of Eckhel Doct. Num. Veter. t. 1. p. 129.