Book 9
4.8
There also is Chalcis, mentioned by the poetIl. ii. 640. in the Aetolian Catalogue. It is below Calydon. There also is the hill Taphiassus, on which is the monument of Nessus, and of the other Centaurs. From the putrefaction of the bodies of these people there flows, it is said, from beneath the foot of that hill a stream of water, which exhales a foetid odour, and contains clots of blood. Hence also the nation had the name of Ozolae.From ὀζεῖν, to smell. Opposite Antirrhium is Molycreia,Maurolimne. a small Aetolian city.
4.8
Amphissa is situated at the extremity of the Crissaean plain. It was razed, as we have said before, by the Amphictyons. Oeanthia and Eupalium belong to the Locri. The whole voyage along the coast of the Locri is a little more than 200 stadia.
4.9
There is an AlopēThe site is unknown. both here among the Locri Ozole, as also among the Epicnemidii, and in the Phthiotis. These are a colony of the Epicnemidii, and the Epizephyrii a colony of the Ozolae.
4.10
Aetolians are continuous with the Locri Hesperii, and the Aenianes, who occupy Oeta with the Epicnemidii, and between them Dorians. These last are the people who inhabited the Tetrapolis, which is called the capital of all the Dorians. They possessed the cities Erineus, Boeum, Pindus, Cytinium. Pindus is situated above Erineus. A river of the same name flows beside it, and empties itself into the Cephissus, not far from Lilaea. Some writers call Pindus, Acyphas.
4.10
Aegimius, king of these Dorians, when an exile from his kingdom, was restored, as they relate, by Hercules. He requited this favour after the death of Hercules at Oeta by adopting Hyllus, the eldest of the sons of Hercules, and both he and his descendants succeeded him in the kingdom. It was from this place that the Heracleidae set out on their return to Peloponnesus.
