Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), M, Molionĭdae, Molossi

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Molossi

（Μολοσσοί). A people of Epirus, inhabiting a narrow strip of country, called after them Molossia or Molossis, which extended along the western bank of the Arachthus as far as the Ambracian Gulf. They were the most powerful people in Epirus, and their kings gradually extended their dominion over the whole of the country. The first of their kings, who took the title of King of Epirus, was the Alexander who perished in Italy B.C. 326. (See Epirus.) Their capital was Ambracia. The Molossian hounds were celebrated in antiquity ( Georg. iii. 405).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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