Note 800 — Chapter XXIV · AKARNANIANS. — EPIROTS.
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Hekatæus, Fr. 77, ed. Klausen; Strabo, vii, p. 326; Appian, Illyric. c. 7. In the time of Thucydidês, the Molossi and the Atintânes were under the same king (ii, 80). The name Ἠπειρῶται, with Thucydidês, means only inhabitants of a continent,—οἱ ταύτῃ ἠπειρῶται (i, 47; ii, 80) includes Ætolians and Akarnanians (iii, 94-95), and is applied to inhabitants of Thrace (iv, 105).
Epirus is used in its special sense to designate the territory west of Pindus by Xenophon, Hellen. vi, 1, 7.
Compare Mannert. Geographie der Griech. und Römer, part vii, book 2 p. 283.