Book 5
22.3
These are the work of Lycius, the son of Myron, and were dedicated by the people of Apollonia on the Ionian sea. There are also elegiac verses written in ancient characters under the feet of Zeus.As memorials of Apollonia have we been dedicated, which on the Ionian seaPhoebus founded, he of the unshorn locks.The Apollonians, after taking the land of Abantis, set up hereThese images with heaven's help, tithe from Thronium.The land called Abantis and the town of Thronium in it were a part of the Thesprotian mainland over against the Ceraunian mountains.
22.4
When the Greek fleet was scattered on the voyage home from Troy, Locrians from Thronium, a city on the river Boagrius, and Abantes from Euboea, with eight ships altogether, were driven on the Ceraunian mountains. Settling here and founding the city of Thronium, by common agreement they gave the name of Abantis to the land as far as they occupied it. Afterwards, however, they were conquered in war and expelled by the people of Apollonia, their neighbors. Apollonia was a colony of Corcyra, they say, and Corcyra of Corinth, and the Corinthians had their share of the spoils.
