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To the Aetolians belong both CalydonThere has been some dispute respecting the site of Calydon. Leake supposes the ruins which he discovered at Kurtaga, or Kortaga, to the west of the Evenus, (Fidari,) to be those of Calydon. and Pleuron, which at present are in a reduced condition, but, anciently, these settlements were an ornament to Greece.
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Aetolia was divided into two portions, one called the Old, the other the Epictetus (the Acquired). The Old comprised the sea-coast from the Achelous as far as Calydon, extending far into the inland parts, which are fertile, and consist of plains. Here are situated Stratus and Trichonium, which has an excellent soil. The Epictetus, that reaches close to the Locri in the direction of NaupactusLepanto. and Eupalium,Leake supposes it to have stood in the plain of Marathia, opposite the island Trissonia. is a rugged and sterile tract, extending as far as Oetaea, to the territory of the Athamanes, and the mountains and nations following next in order, and which lie around towards the north.
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There is in Aetolia a very large mountain, the Corax,M. Coraca. which is contiguous to Oeta. Among the other mountains, more in the middle of the country, is the Aracynthus,M. Zigos. near which the founders built the modern Pleuron, having abandoned the ancient city situated near Calydon, which was in a fertile plain country, when Demetrius, surnamed Aetolicus, laid waste the district.
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Above MolycreiaXerotimae. are TaphiassusKaki-scala. and Chalcis,Varassova mountains of considerable height, on which are situated the small cities, Macynia and Chalcis, (having the same name as the mountain,) or, as it is also called, Hypochalcis. Mount Curium is near the ancient Pleuron, from which some supposed the Pleuronii had the appellation of Curetes.
