Footnote 23: Herod, i. 57.—On the situation of this city see Poppo, Proleg. ad Thucyd. ii. p. 383. Footnote 24: Justin, vii. 1. Æsch. Supp. p. 261. Cf. Thucyd. iv. 109. Footnote 25: Diod. v. p. 396. Wesseling. But to follow the movements of the Pelasgi through Greece itself, where, though no chronology of events can be attempted, our views rest on a stable foundation. Much, however, of our reasoning will be confused or perhaps unintelligible, if it be not borne in mind that the name of the Pelasgi, like that of the Tartars or Arabs, was a general appellation applied to the whole race, while the several tribes bore separate denominations; as the Chaones,[26] the Dryopes, the Leleges, the Caucons, the Cranaans, with many others,[27] precisely as among the Arabs, we find the Ababde, the Mahazi, the Beni Sakker, &c. The Pelasgian tribe which first made its appearance, and became powerful in Epeiros, a country not to be separated from Greece, was that of the Chaones, whose chief seat was Cheimera,[28] at the foot of the Ceraunian mountains. An obscure scholiast, indeed, denominates them barbarians;[29] but as from the best authority we know them to have been Pelasgi, this shows the value of the term in the mouth of the later writers. Another class,—the Levites, perhaps, of those primitive people,—settled amid the oak forests which surrounded the lovely lake of Dodona, where under the name of Selli,[30] they founded the most celebrated oracle of early antiquity. In their habits they remind us of the Sanyasis, and other religious anchorites of India, living from views of penance with unwashed feet, and sleeping on the bare ground. Other tribes renowned of old in Epeiros, and all Pelasgian,[31] were the Thesprotians, the Molossians, the Perrhæbians, and the Dolopians, the last rough mountaineers inhabiting both the eastern and western slopes of Pindos.[32] Footnote 26: Steph. Byz. _v._ Χαονία, p. 753. g. Footnote 27: Hermann, however, (Polit. Ant. p. 14,) imagines that the Caucons, Leleges, &c. were independent races, though less civilised and illustrious than the Pelasgi. Footnote 28: Plin. iv. 1. Footnote 29: Schol. ad Aristoph. Eq. 78. Footnote 30: Aristot. Meteorol. i. 14. p. 39.—Il. π. 234. seq. Footnote 31: Steph. Byz. _v._ Ἔφυρα, p. 367. c. Strab. vii. 7 p. 119. See also Müll. Dor. i. 6. Plut. Pyrrh. 1.—See the authorities collected by Niebuhr, i. 26. Footnote 32: Dolops was the son of Hermes, and dying in the city of Magnesia in Thessaly, had there a tomb erected by the sea-shore. Sch. Apoll. Rhod. i. 587. 558.