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62 BEAUTY OF THE SCENERY.
and Alious, on the Locrian coast; and says that the fortresses of
Nicaea, Tichious, Herakleia, and Rodountia, are within the pass ;
that is, on the Locrian side. Homer, under the word Locrians,
includes the Opuntian and Hypoknemidian; and says that forty
vessels were equipped against Troy by the united resources of
Cynos, Opoeis, Kalliaros, Bessa, Skarphe, Augeiai, Tarphe, and
Thronion. Pausanias1 observes, that Herodotus does not mention
the number of men which the Locri, who inhabited the foot of
Mount Knemis, sent to Thermopylae against the Persians; but
that he only asserts that all the towns of that country supplied
some. Herodotus2 does not mention the Hypoknemidii,3 but
probably includes both the Locrians under the name of Opuntii,
as Pausanias appears to do under that of Hypoknemidii; for the
number of 6000 men, which the latter conjectures to have been
their contingent, was too great a force for the narrow slip of land
within which the territory of the Hypoknemidii was confined.
Herodotus, in another place,4 says, that the Opuntian Locri sent
seven fifty-oared vessels against the Persians at the battle of Arte-
mision. Diodorus Siculus5 asserts that the Locrians, after wavering
Avith irresolution and acting with duplicity towards both the Greeks
and Persians, at last furnished a contingent of 1000 men against the
latter at Thermopylae. It is singular that Pausanias should differ so
widely from Diodorus. .
When Brennus attacked Greece, the Locrians, who lived near the
island of Atalante, despatched 700 infantry to defend the pass of
Thermopylae.6
I have made the above digression in order to show how very
1 B. 10. c. 20. " B. 7. c. 203.
3 Pausanias is the only author who calls them rxowyiuSm. They are named Eirtxy^tStoi
by Strabo and others, but I have throughout followed the readings of Pausanias in order to
avoid confusion. It is written Etfixvij.aiJjoj upon their coins.
4 B. 8. c. 1. * B. 11. c. 4. 6 Pausan. b. 10. c. 20.
and Alious, on the Locrian coast; and says that the fortresses of
Nicaea, Tichious, Herakleia, and Rodountia, are within the pass ;
that is, on the Locrian side. Homer, under the word Locrians,
includes the Opuntian and Hypoknemidian; and says that forty
vessels were equipped against Troy by the united resources of
Cynos, Opoeis, Kalliaros, Bessa, Skarphe, Augeiai, Tarphe, and
Thronion. Pausanias1 observes, that Herodotus does not mention
the number of men which the Locri, who inhabited the foot of
Mount Knemis, sent to Thermopylae against the Persians; but
that he only asserts that all the towns of that country supplied
some. Herodotus2 does not mention the Hypoknemidii,3 but
probably includes both the Locrians under the name of Opuntii,
as Pausanias appears to do under that of Hypoknemidii; for the
number of 6000 men, which the latter conjectures to have been
their contingent, was too great a force for the narrow slip of land
within which the territory of the Hypoknemidii was confined.
Herodotus, in another place,4 says, that the Opuntian Locri sent
seven fifty-oared vessels against the Persians at the battle of Arte-
mision. Diodorus Siculus5 asserts that the Locrians, after wavering
Avith irresolution and acting with duplicity towards both the Greeks
and Persians, at last furnished a contingent of 1000 men against the
latter at Thermopylae. It is singular that Pausanias should differ so
widely from Diodorus. .
When Brennus attacked Greece, the Locrians, who lived near the
island of Atalante, despatched 700 infantry to defend the pass of
Thermopylae.6
I have made the above digression in order to show how very
1 B. 10. c. 20. " B. 7. c. 203.
3 Pausanias is the only author who calls them rxowyiuSm. They are named Eirtxy^tStoi
by Strabo and others, but I have throughout followed the readings of Pausanias in order to
avoid confusion. It is written Etfixvij.aiJjoj upon their coins.
4 B. 8. c. 1. * B. 11. c. 4. 6 Pausan. b. 10. c. 20.