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[3] Hellen had Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus¹ by a nymph Orseis. Those who were called Greeks he named Hellenes after himself,² and divided the country among his sons. Xuthus received Peloponnese and begat Achaeus and Ion by Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus, and from Achaeus and Ion the Achaeans and Ionians derive their names. Dorus received the country over against Peloponnese and called the settlers Dorians after himself.³ Aeolus reigned over the regions about Thessaly and named the inhabitants Aeolians.⁴ He married Enarete, daughter of Deimachus, and begat seven sons, Cretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Magnes, Perieres, and five daughters, Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice, Calyce, Perimede.⁵
Perimede had Hippodamas and Orestes by Achelous; and Pisidice had Antiphus and Actor by Myrmidon.

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[3] Ἕλληνος δὲ καὶ νύμφης Ὀρσηίδος Δῶρος Ξοῦθος Αἴολος. αὐτὸς μὲν οὖν ἀφʼ αὑτοῦ τοὺς καλουμένους Γραικοὺς προσηγόρευσεν Ἕλληνας, τοῖς δὲ παισὶν ἐμέρισε τὴν χώραν· καὶ Ξοῦθος μὲν λαβὼν τὴν Πελοπόννησον ἐκ Κρεούσης τῆς Ἐρεχθέως Ἀχαιὸν ἐγέννησε καὶ Ἴωνα, ἀφʼ ὧν Ἀχαιοὶ καὶ Ἴωνες καλοῦνται, Δῶρος δὲ τὴν πέραν χώραν Πελοποννήσου λαβὼν τοὺς κατοίκους ἀφʼ ἑαυτοῦ Δωριεῖς ἐκάλεσεν, Αἴολος δὲ βασιλεύων τῶν περὶ τὴν Θεσσαλίαν τόπων τοὺς ἐνοικοῦντας Αἰολεῖς προσηγόρευσε, καὶ γήμας Ἐναρέτην τὴν Δηιμάχου παῖδας μὲν ἐγέννησεν ἑπτά, Κρηθέα Σίσυφον Ἀθάμαντα Σαλμωνέα Δηιόνα Μάγνητα Περιήρην, θυγατέρας δὲ πέντε, Κανάκην Ἀλκυόνην Πεισιδίκην Καλύκην Περιμήδην.

Περιμήδης μὲν οὖν καὶ Ἀχελῴου Ἱπποδάμας καὶ Ὀρέστης, Πεισιδίκης δὲ καὶ Μυρμιδόνος Ἄντιφος καὶ Ἄκτωρ.

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1. As to Hellen and his sons, see Strab. 8.7.1 ; Paus. 7.12 ; Conon 27 . According to the Scholiast on Hom. Il. i.2 , Xuthus was a son of Aeolus.

2. According to the Parian Chronicle, the change of the national name from Greeks (Graikoi) to Hellenes took place in 1521 B.C. See Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, ed. C. Müller, i.542ff. Compare Aristot. Met. 1.352 ; Etymologicum Magnum, s.v. Γραικός, p. 239 ; Stephanus Byzantius, s.v. Γραικός ; Frazer on Paus. 3.20.6; The Fragments of Sophocles, ed. A. C. Pearson, ii.160.

3. As to the early seats of the Dorians, see Hdt. 1.56 .

4. As to the Aeolians of Thessaly, compare Paus. 10.8.4 ; Diod. 4.67.2 .

5. As to Aeolus, his descendants, and their settlements, see Diod. 4.67.2-7 ; Scholiast on Pind. P. 4.107(190) .

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