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ΑΙΤΩΛΙΑ (Αρχαία περιοχή) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
[...] but when the Epeians met them with arms, and it was found that the two forces were evenly matched, Pyraechmes the Aetolian and Degmenus the Epeian, in accordance with an ancient custom of the Greeks, advanced to single combat. Degmenus was lightly armed with a bow, thinking that he would easily overcome a heavy-armed opponent at long range, but Pyraechmes armed himself with a sling and a bag of stones, after he had noticed his opponent's ruse (as it happened, the sling had only recently been invented by the Aetolians); and since the sling had longer range, Degmenus fell, and the Aetolians drove out the Epeians and took possession of the land;
Ο Πυραίχμης ήταν Αιτωλός στρατιώτης έμπειρος στη χρήση της σφενδόνας. Αυτόν επέλεξε ο Οξυλος για να μονομαχήσει με τον Ηλείο στρατιώτη για τη βασιλεία της Ηλείας. Ο Πυραίχμης νίκησε και η βασιλεία περιήλθε στον Οξυλο (Παυσ. 5,4,2).
Γιος του Ενδυμίωνα από την Ηλεία, πήρε τη βασιλεία μετά τον αδελφό του Επειό. Εξορίστηκε από την Πελοπόννησο για τον ακούσιο φόνο του Απι και κατέφυγε στην περί τον Αχελώο χώρα στην οποία έδωσε το όνομά του (Παυσ. 5.1.4,8).
Aetolus, (Aitolos). The son of Endymion, who founded Elis and
Iphianassa. Having accidentally killed Apis, son of Phoroneus, he fled with a
band of followers into the country which afterwards was called, in his honour,
Aetolia.
Aetolus (Aitolos). A son of Endymion and the nymph Neis, or Iphianassa (Apollod. i. 7.6). According to Pausanias (v. i.2), his mother was called Asterodia, Chromia, or Hyperippe. He was married to Pronoe, by whom he had two sons, Pleuron and Calydon. His brothers were Paeon, Epeius, and others (Steph. Byz. s. v. Naxos; Conon. Narrat. 14; Schol. ad Pind. Ol. i. 28). His father compelled him and his two brothers Paeon and Epeius to decide by a contest at Olympia as to which of them was to succeed him in his kingdom of Elis. Epeius gained the victory, and occupied the throne after his father, and on his demise he was succeeded by Aetolus. During the funeral games which were celebrated in honour of Azan, he ran with his chariot over Apis, the son of Jason or Salmoneus, and killed him, whereupon he was expelled by the sons of Apis (Apollod. l. c.; Paus. v. 1.6; Strab. viii.). After leaving Peloponnesus, he went to the country of the Curetes, between the Achelous and the Corinthian gulf, where he slew Dorus, Laodocus, and Polypoetes, the sons of Helios and Phthia, and gave to the country the name of Aetolia (Apollod. Paus. ll. cc.). This story is only a mythical account of the colonisation of Aetolia. (Strab. x.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Sep 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Ephorus, after saying that the Aetolians were a race which had never become subject to any other people, but throughout all time of which there is any record had remained undevastated, both because of the ruggedness of their country and because of their training in warfare, says at the outset that the Curetes held possession of the whole country, but when Aetolus, the son of Endymion, arrived from Elis and overpowered them in war, the Curetes withdrew to what is now called Acarnania, whereas the Aetolians came back with Epeians and founded the earliest of the cities of Aetolia, and in the tenth generation after that Elis was settled by Oxylus the son of Haemon, who had crossed over from Aetolia.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
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