# Naturalis Historia 4.28

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 4. Latin.

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28] Doris deinde, in qua Sparthos, Erineon, Boion, Pindus, Cytinum. Doridis a tergo mons Oeta est. Sequitur mutatis saepe nominibus Haemonia, eadem Pelasgis et Pelasgicon Argos, Hellas, eadem Thessalia et Dryopis, semper a regibus cognominata. ibi genitus rex nomine Graecus, a quo Graecia; ibi Hellen, a quo Hellenes. hos eosdem Homerus tribus nominibus appellavit Myrmidonas et Hellenas et Achaeos. ex his Phthiotae nominantur Dorida accolentes. eorum oppida Echinus, in faucibus Sperchii fluminis Thermopylarum angustiae, quo argumento IIII inde Heraclea Trechin dicta est. mons ibi Calidromus; oppida celebrata Hellas, Halos, Lamia, Phthia, Arne.

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