The first to fall in their hands was the ancient Emathia, near Edessa, and downwards to the sea, which Herodotus includes in _his_ Macedonia. The name of the country appears to be Grecian;(2082) and since Justin(2083) distinctly affirms that the ancient inhabitants of Emathia were Pelasgians, and as Æschylus, a poet greatly versed in traditional lore, also makes the kingdom of the Pelasgians extend through Macedonia as far as the Strymon,(2084) it must be considered that, according to ancient tradition, the early inhabitants of this country were of the Pelasgic race. It is likewise fair, by the guidance of several parallel cases in the Greek mythology, to interpret the legend that Lycaon the Arcadian hero had once ruled in Emathia, and was the father of Macedon,(2085) as signifying merely the succession, _according to order of time_, of the Pelasgians and Macedonians in the occupation of this country; which the language of mythology expressed by placing the respective races in a _genealogical_ connexion. So Thessalus is called a son of Jason, although the Thessalians belonged to a different race from the early rulers of the country, the Minyæ of Iolcus, of whom Jason was one. Hence it is highly probable that at the first conquest of this tract of land, viz., of Macedonia Proper, nations akin to the Greeks were mixed with the Illyrians. 30. One of the earliest conquests of the Macedonians was the country of their neighbours(2086) the Phrygians; _i.e._, according to the most exact statements, the district about mount Bermius, where in the ancient gardens of king Midas, the son of Gordias (in which Silenus had been once taken prisoner), the hundred-leaved rose still flourished at the time of Herodotus.(2087) It is exceedingly probable that, as Herodotus states, this district had been occupied by the Macedonians before the arrival of the Temenidæ;(2088) with which the tradition of an ancient migration of the Phrygians coincides:(2089) yet it is also stated that Caranus the Temenid expelled Midas.(2090) That the Phrygians or Brygians were entirely incorporated in the Macedonian nation cannot be supposed, as we hear quite in late times of a tribe of Brygians (Βρύγοι) in these regions, who then dwelt near the Illyrian mountains beyond Lychnidus, not far from the Erigon, together with the Dassaretians.(2091) The tribe of Mygdonians, which was allied to the Phrygians,(2092) must have been lost in other nations at an early period, since their territory had been occupied by the Edones before it became a part of the Macedonian empire.