28. “Some again,” as Strabo says, “give to the whole country as far as Corcyra the name of Macedonia.” What country this is, is accurately known both from the testimony of other writers, and even of Strabo himself. The Romans called the whole region which opened to them the way to Macedonia(2068) by the name of Macedonia; and made it reach from Lissus (now _Alessio_) on the river Drilon (now the _Drin_) either to the Egnatian road,(2069) which begins between Dyrrhachium (or Epidamnus) and Apollonia, or, as Strabo states in the passage quoted in the text, for a short distance beyond.(2070) The inhabitants of this tract of country were beyond all question Illyrians (Taulantii, Parthini, Dassaretii, &c.(2071)); and it is of _their_ dress and language that Strabo here speaks. The importance of these points for the discovery of national affinity is easily perceived. Indeed, many Grecian tribes might be distinguished merely by their mode of wearing the hair.(2072) The chlamys had come to the Greeks from the Thessalians, and Sappho was the first Grecian writer who mentioned it:(2073) afterwards it became a military dress, and supplanted the ἱμάτιον, as in Italy the _sagum_ took the place of the _toga_, which was originally girt up for military use.(2074) From this passage of Strabo we learn that it was the national habit of the Illyrian tribes above Epirus. In like manner the broad-brimmed, low, flat fur-cap, known by the name of _causia_, which was equally unlike the conical(2075) κυνέη of the Bœotians and the low, tapering(2076) πέτασος, was worn by these northern nations; it was the ancient dress of state among the Macedonians, and worn by their kings;(2077) and it was likewise the dress of the Ætolians(2078) and Molossians.(2079) But the most remarkable circumstance is, that the same cap which is borne by the riders on the tetradrachms of the first Alexander also adorns the head of the Illyrian king Gentius.(2080) Lastly, the similarity of dialect is a decisive proof. Now that all these things should have been introduced by the Macedonian kings seems highly improbable, when it is remembered that their rule did not even extend over the whole of this tract, that it was also often interrupted, and in general not of a nature to alter the character, language, and costume of the natives.(2081) From these facts it may, I think, be safely inferred that the Macedonians, viz., the people originally and properly so called, belonged to the ILLYRIAN race. _On the mixture of the Macedonians with other, particularly Greek, races._ 29. It is, however, certain, notwithstanding the result which has been established, that the Macedonians in their advance from the highlands dislodged, and partly incorporated other, and particularly Grecian, tribes.