[795] Thucyd. ii, 68-102; Stephan. Byz. v. Φοίτιαι. See the discussion in Strabo (x, p. 462), whether the Akarnanians did, or did not, take part in the expedition against Troy; Ephorus maintaining the negative, and stringing together a plausible narrative to explain why they did not. The time came when the Akarnanians gained credit with Rome for this supposed absence of their ancestors.
[796] Polyb. iv, 30: compare also ix, 40.
[797] Diodor. xix, 67; Livy, xxxiii, 16-17; xlv, 31.
[798] Skylax. c. 28-32.
[799] Herodot. ii, 56, v, 92, vi, 127; Thucyd. ii, 80; Plato, Minos, p. 315. The Chaonians and Thesprotians were separated by the river Thyamis (now Kalamas),—Thucyd. i, 46; Stephanus Byz. v. Τροία.
[800] Hekatæus, Fr. 77, ed. Klausen; Strabo, vii, p. 326; Appian, Illyric. c. 7. In the time of Thucydidês, the Molossi and the Atintânes were under the same king (ii, 80). The name Ἠπειρῶται, with Thucydidês, means only inhabitants of a continent,—οἱ ταύτῃ ἠπειρῶται (i, 47; ii, 80) includes Ætolians and Akarnanians (iii, 94-95), and is applied to inhabitants of Thrace (iv, 105).
Epirus is used in its special sense to designate the territory west of Pindus by Xenophon, Hellen. vi, 1, 7.
Compare Mannert. Geographie der Griech. und Römer, part vii, book 2 p. 283.
[801] Strabo, vii, p. 324.
[802] Thucyd. ii, 68.