Αἰακίδη, προφύλαξο μολεῖν Ἀχερούσιον ὕδωρ
Πανδοσίην θ’, ὅθι τοι θάνατος πεπρωμένος ἐστί.
Son of Æacus, beware of approaching the Acherusian water and Pandosia, where death is destined for thee.
[2115] About B. C.330.
[2116] Commentators generally agree that this is the Pandosia memorable for the defeat and death of Alexander, king of Epirus. The early Calabrian antiquaries have placed it at Castel Franco. D’Anville, in his map, lays it down near Lao and Cirella. Modern investigators have sought its ruins near Mendocino, between Cosenza and the sea, a hill with three summits having been remarked there, which answers to the fatal height pointed out by the oracle,
Πανδοσία τρικόλωνε, πολύν ποτε λαὸν ὀλέσσεις·
together with a rivulet, Maresanto or Arconti; which last name recalls the Acheron denounced by another prediction, as so inauspicious to the Molossian king. Scylax, in his Periplus, seems to place Pandosia, together with Clampetia and Terina, near the western coast.
[2117] Afterwards Vibo Valentia, now Monte-Leone.
[2118] Surnamed the Epizephyrii. Heyne supposes this took place B. C.388.