. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. cendunt Centauri, Homolen Othrymque nivalemLinquentes cursu rapido. uEn. vii. 674. ^ The poetical allusions to Pindus are of a general character, as one of themost important mountains of Greece :— Nam neque Parnassi vobis juga, nam neque Pindi XJlla moram fecere, neque Aonie Aganippe.—Virg. EcJ. x. 11. Caucasus ardet, Ossaque cum Pindo, major que ambobus Olympus.—Ov. Met. ii. 224. ^ GEta is associated with the death of Hercules, which took place on its sum-mit, the hero being there burnt on a f
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. cendunt Centauri, Homolen Othrymque nivalemLinquentes cursu rapido. uEn. vii. 674. ^ The poetical allusions to Pindus are of a general character, as one of themost important mountains of Greece :— Nam neque Parnassi vobis juga, nam neque Pindi XJlla moram fecere, neque Aonie Aganippe.—Virg. EcJ. x. 11. Caucasus ardet, Ossaque cum Pindo, major que ambobus Olympus.—Ov. Met. ii. 224. ^ GEta is associated with the death of Hercules, which took place on its sum-mit, the hero being there burnt on a funeral pile : Yixdum clara dies summa lustrabat in CTlta Herculei monnmenta rogi. Sil. Ital. vi, 452. Hence 358 THESSALIA. Book IV. Doris, and ^Etolia. The only practicable route bv which this rangecould be surmounted led through the famous pass of Thermopylae, andafter following the sea-coast for a certain distance, crossed Cnemisinto Boeotia. Thermopylas was thus, in the S. of Thessaly, verymuch what the vale of Tempe was in the X.—an almost im2)regnable -post against an invading I\lap of rbcrmopyla} and the surrounding Country. The Gates or pass of Thermopylte were formed by a spur of (Eta,which protruded to the immediate vicinity of the coast (c c), the intervalbetween the two being for the most part occupied by a morass. Greatchanges have taken place in this locality: the sea-coast is now removedto a considerable distance (a a by the alluvial deposits (A A) broughtdown by the Spercheus, and a broad swampy plain spreads away fromthe foot of QEta, removing all appearance of a pass. The Spercheus,which formerly fell into the Maliac Bay near Anticyra, now deviatesto the S. {h h) by Thermopylse; Tvdiile the Asopus, which crossed theplain immediately W. of the pass, now falls into the Spercheus by acourse (e e) considerably removed from it. The Dyras has been altered Hence CEtoeus became a favourite epithet of Hercules, : — Troja, bis Oitaei numine capta de
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