Book 7
5.7
The Dardanii are entirely a savage people, so much so that they dig caves beneath dungheaps, in which they dwell; yet they are fond of music, and are much occupied in playing upon pipes and on stringed instruments. They inhabit the inland parts of the country, and we shall mention them again in another place.
5.8
After the bay of RhizonThe Gulf of Cataro is Lissus,Alesso a city, Acrolissus,A fortified rock near. and Epidamnus, the present Dyrrhachium,Durazzo founded by Corcyraeans, and bearing the name of the peninsula on which it is situated. Then follow the rivers ApsusErgent, or Beratino. and the Aous,Lao, or Vousoutza. on the banks of which is situated Apollonia,Polina. Thucydides calls Apollonia a colony of the Corinthians, and not of the Corinthians and Corcyraeans. He states it, however, (b. i. c. 24,) to have been the practice for colonies which in their turn founded other colonies, to unite with them, on these occasions, citizens of the mother city. a city governed by excellent laws. It was founded by Corinthians and Corcyraeans, and is distant from the river 10, and from the sea 60, stadia. Hecataeus calls the Aous, Aias, and says that from the same place, or rather from the same sources about Lacmus,One of the peaks of Pindus. the Inachus flows southward, to Argos,Amphilochian Argos, now Filochia. G. and the Aias westward, into the Adriatic.
