nanians. They extended to the Ionian Sea, and seem,
in the time of Thucydides, to have occupied both banks of
the river Achel6us in the lower part of its course — ^though
the left bank appears afterwards as belonging to the JBto-
lians, so that the river came to constitute the boundary,
. often disputed and decided by arms, between them. The
principal Akamanian towns. Stratus and (Eniadse, were

Strabo , p. 463. Tbe sitaatlon of notes it more correctly to the east

Thermns, ''the acropolie as it were of that lake (Folyb. ▼. 7-8 ; com-

of all ^tolia," and placed on a pare Brandstiter, Chesohichte des

spot almost unapproachable by an Aetol. Landes, p. 133).
army, is to a certain extent, though > Thuoyd. iii. 102.— dYvcDordtaTOi

not wholly , capable of being de- 8i y^^^^^^v >l9i , xal u>|xo9diY<>^ *''' <

lermined by the description which XifovTai. It seems that Thucy-

Folybius gives of the rapid march didds had not himself seen or eon-

of Philip and the Macedonian army versed with them, but he does not

to surprise it. The maps, both of call them p^ppapoi.
Erase and Eiepert, place it too * Ephorus, Fragment. 29, ed,

much on the north of the lake Marx. ; Skymn. Ohius, ▼. 471 ; StrabO|

Trichftnis: the map of Fiedler x. p. 450,



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both on the right bank; the latter on the marshy and over-
flowed land near its month. Near the AkamanianSy towards
the Gulf of Ambrakia, were found barbarian or non-Hellenic
nations — the Agrseans and the Amphilochians : in the midst
of the latter, on the shores of the Ambrakian Gulf, the
Greek colony called Argos Amphilochicum was established.
