. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. us in 197. Its ruins, con-sisting of the circuit of the walls and towers, and a part of the theatre,stand upon a height near Ak-Ketjel. Eretria, near Pharsalus, isnoticeable as the spot where Q. Flaminius halted in his march fromPherae to Scotussa in 197. Halus ^ was situated on a projecting spurof Othrys, near the sea, and overlooking the Grecian plain. Pteleum,^ Kat Kev vSuip (/)opeot? Meo(Ji7t5o?, r) YTrepetrj?.—II, vi. 457. Eyyvg fxev ^>epTj?, Kpdvav YTreprjtSa Aittwi/. Pind. Pyth.
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. us in 197. Its ruins, con-sisting of the circuit of the walls and towers, and a part of the theatre,stand upon a height near Ak-Ketjel. Eretria, near Pharsalus, isnoticeable as the spot where Q. Flaminius halted in his march fromPherae to Scotussa in 197. Halus ^ was situated on a projecting spurof Othrys, near the sea, and overlooking the Grecian plain. Pteleum,^ Kat Kev vSuip (/)opeot? Meo(Ji7t5o?, r) YTrepetrj?.—II, vi. 457. Eyyvg fxev ^>epTj?, Kpdvav YTreprjtSa Aittwi/. Pind. Pyth. iv. 221.^Cl ^epaCa, p^atpe* crvyyovdi/ 6 vStop YTTepeta Kp-qvr], 6eo(f)Lk€(TTaTOU. SoPH. Fragm. 753. Flevit AmjTnone, flerunt Messeides undee, Flevit et efFusis revocans Hyperia lacertis.—Val. Flac. iv. is noticed by Homer {IL ii. 682).^ The Homeric epithet of k^x^iroCriv was possibly more appropriate in earlythan in late times : a large marsh near the site of the town may once have beena fertile meadow :— ,Xyxi-a-i^ov T* AvTp(ov\ rjd^ UT€\eov AexeTroiTji/.—II. ii. Coin of Pharsalus. Chap. XIX. TOWXS. 365 near the entrance of the Pagasaean Gulf, is mentioned by Horneramong the possessions of Protesilaus. Antiochus landed here in , and the town, having been deserted by its inhabitants, was de-stroyed in 171. Larissa Cremaste received its surname from its posi-tion hangin j upon the side of Othrys : it Vvas occupied by DemetriusPoliorcetes in his war with Cassander in 302, and was taken bythe Romans in their w^ars with Philip in 200, and with. Perseus in was situated on a lofty hill on the left bank of the Enipeus,a days march from Pharsalus : it was visited by Brasidas and by theallies in the Lamiac War; Philip failed to take it. Lamia, originallybelonging to the Malienses, was situated on a height about 6 milesfrom the sea and 3J from the Spercheus. It is well knowTi from thewar named after it, carried on in 323 by t
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