[162] The Magnetæ dwelt near to Mount Pelion and the Pelasgic Gulf, now the Bay of Volo.
[163] These people dwelt between Mount Othrys, and the Maliac Gulf, now the Gulf of Zeitun.
[164] The maritime portion of Epirus opposite Corfu.
[165] In the time of Homer the Dolopes were the neighbours of the Pæonians, and dwelt in the north of that part of Thrace which afterwards formed Macedonia. Later, however, they descended into Thessaly, and established themselves around Pindus.
[166] Dodona was in Epirus, but its exact position is not known.
[167] Now Aspro-potamo, or the White River; this river flows into the sea at the entrance of the Gulf of Corinth.
[168] And the assembly was moved, as the great waves of the Icarian sea. Iliad ii. 144.
[169] Ἀργέσταο Νότοιο, Iliad xi. 306, xxi. 334. Ἀργέστης strictly speaking means the north-west, and although, to an English ear, the north-west south seems at first absurd, yet in following up the argument which Strabo is engaged in, it is impossible to make use of any other terms than those which he has brought forward, and merely to have translated ἀργέσταο Νότοιο by Argest-south, would have mystified the passage without cause. We do not here attempt to reconcile the various renderings of ἀργέσταο Νότοιο by Homeric critics, as Strabo’s sense alone concerns us.
[170] The north and west winds, which both blow from Thrace. Iliad ix. 5.
[171] Ἀργέστης Νότος, the clearing south wind, Horace’s Notus Albus;—in the improved compass of Aristotle, ἀργέστης was the north-west wind, the Athenian σκείρων.