Histories

For in the days of king Deucalion [*](Deucalion and Pyrrha were the survivors of the Deluge as known to Greek legend.) it inhabited the land of Phthia [22.75,36.2667] (Perseus) Phthia, then the country called Histiaean, under Ossa and Olympus (mountain), Nomos Larisis, Thessaly, Greece, Europe Olympus, in the time of Dorus son of Hellen; driven from this Histiaean country by the Cadmeans, it settled about Pindus in the territory called Macedonian; from there again it migrated to Dryopia, and at last came from Dryopia into the Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese, where it took the name of Dorian.[*](The localities mentioned in the story of the migration into the Peloponnese [22,37.5] (region), Greece, Europe Peloponnese are all in northern Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeGreece.)

What language the Pelasgians spoke I cannot say definitely. But if one may judge by those that still remain of the Pelasgians who live above the Tyrrheni [*](If these are the Etruscans, then Creston may = Cortona [11.9833,43.2667] (Perseus)Cortona: but the whole matter is doubtful.) in the city of Creston—who were once neighbors of the people now called Dorians, and at that time inhabited the country which now is called Thessalian—