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It had the name of Ellopia, from Ellops, the son of Ion; according to others, he was the brother of Aeclus, and Cothus, who is said to have founded Ellopia,At the base of Ploko Vuno. a small place situated in the district called Oria of the Histiaeotis, near the mountain Telethrius.Mount Galzades, celebrated for producing medicinal plants. Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. b. ix. c. 15 and 20. He also possessed Histiaea, Perias, Cerinthus, Aedepsus,Dipso, according to Kiepert. and Orobie, where was an oracle very free from deception. There also was an oracle of Apollo Selinuntius.
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The Ellopians, after the battle of Leuctra, were compelled by the tyrant Philistides to remove to the city Histiea, and augmented the number of its inhabitants. DemosthenesPhilipp. iii. says that Philistides was appointed by Philip tyrant of the Oreitae also, for afterwards the Histiaeans had that name, and the city, instead of Histiaea, was called Oreus. According to some writers, Histiaea was colonized by Athenians from the demus of the Histiaeeis, as Eretria was from the demus of the Eretrieis. But Theopompus says, that when Pericles had reduced Euboea, the Histiaeans agreed to remove into Macedonia, and that two thousand Athenians, who formerly composed the demus of the Histiaeans, came, and founded Oreus.Not the town named Histiaea-Oreus, which was on the sea-coast.
