Here we have an example of those names of the earliest progenitors of an ancient race that seem to bear fiction on their face; Palaecthon meaning merely the ancient son of the land, and Pelasgus being the name-father of the famous ante-Homeric wandering Greeks, whom we call Pelasgi.
“All the land where Algos flows, and Strymon.”
The geography here is very confused. I shall content myself with noting the different points from Müller’s map (Dorians)—
(1) Algos; unknown.
(2) Strymon; a well-known river in Thrace.
(3) Perrhæbians; in Thessaly, North of the Peneus (Homer, Il. II. 749).
(4) Pindus; the well-known mountain ridge in the centre of Northern Greece, separating the great rivers which descend on the one hand through Epirus into the Ionian sea and the Adriatic, on the other, into the Ægean.
(5) Pæonia; in the North of Macedonia (Iliad II. 848).
(6) Dodona; in Epirus.