Book 10
1.3
The Ellopians, after the battle of Leuctra, were compelled by the tyrant Philistides to remove to the city Histiea, and augmented the number of its inhabitants. DemosthenesPhilipp. iii. says that Philistides was appointed by Philip tyrant of the Oreitae also, for afterwards the Histiaeans had that name, and the city, instead of Histiaea, was called Oreus. According to some writers, Histiaea was colonized by Athenians from the demus of the Histiaeeis, as Eretria was from the demus of the Eretrieis. But Theopompus says, that when Pericles had reduced Euboea, the Histiaeans agreed to remove into Macedonia, and that two thousand Athenians, who formerly composed the demus of the Histiaeans, came, and founded Oreus.Not the town named Histiaea-Oreus, which was on the sea-coast.
1.4
It is situated below Mount Telethrius, at a place called Drymus, near the river Callas, on a lofty rock;Livy, b. xxxi. c. 46. whence perhaps because the Ellopians, the former inhabitants, were a mountain tribe,διὰ τὸ ὀρείους εἵναι. the city had the name of Oreus. Orion, who was brought up there, seems to have had his name from the place. But according to some writers, the Oreitae, who had a city of their own, being attacked by the Ellopians, migrated, and settled with the Histiaeans, and although it was a single city it had both appellations, as Lacedaemon and Sparta were the same city. We have said, that the Histiaeotis in Thessaly had its name from the people who were carried away from this country by the Perrhaebi.
1.5
As Ellopia induced us to commence our description with Histiaea and Oreus, we shall proceed with the places continuous with these.
