Many have likewise asserted that the nations of the Epirus are Pelasgic, because the dominions of the Pelasgi extended so far. And, as many of the heroes have been named Pelasgi, later writers have applied the same name to the nations over which they were the chiefs. Thus Lesbos[1694] has been called Pelasgic, and Homer has called the people bordering on the Cilices in the Troad Pelasgic:— “Hippothous from Larissa, for her soil Far-famed, the spear-expert Pelasgians brought.”[1695] Ephorus, when he supposes that they were a tribe of Arcadians, follows Hesiod, who says, “The sons born of the divine Lycaon, whom formerly Pelasgus begot.” Likewise Æschylus in his Suppliants, or Danaids, makes their race to be of Argos near Mycenæ. Ephorus likewise says that Peloponnesus was named Pelasgia; and Euripides, in the Archelaus, says, “Danaus, who was the father of fifty daughters, having arrived in Argos, inhabited[1696] the city of Inachus, and made a law that those who had before borne the name of Pelasgiotæ throughout Greece should be called Danai.” Anticlides says, that they first colonized about Lemnos and Imbros, and that some of their number passed into Italy with Tyrrhenus, the son of Atys. And the writers on the Athenian Antiquities,[1697] relate of the Pelasgi, that some of them came to Athens, where, on account of their wanderings, and their settling like birds in any place where they chanced to come, they were called by the Athenians _Pelargi_.[1698]