Book 10
1.4
It is situated below Mount Telethrius, at a place called Drymus, near the river Callas, on a lofty rock;Livy, b. xxxi. c. 46. whence perhaps because the Ellopians, the former inhabitants, were a mountain tribe,διὰ τὸ ὀρείους εἵναι. the city had the name of Oreus. Orion, who was brought up there, seems to have had his name from the place. But according to some writers, the Oreitae, who had a city of their own, being attacked by the Ellopians, migrated, and settled with the Histiaeans, and although it was a single city it had both appellations, as Lacedaemon and Sparta were the same city. We have said, that the Histiaeotis in Thessaly had its name from the people who were carried away from this country by the Perrhaebi.
1.5
As Ellopia induced us to commence our description with Histiaea and Oreus, we shall proceed with the places continuous with these.
1.5
The promontory Cenaeum is near Oreus, and on the promontory is situated Dium,Kiepert accordingly places Dium near the modern Jaitra, but the Austrian map places it to the N. E. of Ploko Vuno. and Athenae Diades, a town founded by Athenians, and overlooks the passage across the strait to Cynus. Canae in Aeolia received colonists from Dium. These places are situated near Histiea, and besides these Cerinthus, a small city, close to the sea. Near it is a river Budorus, of the same name as the mountain in Salamis on the side of Attica,
