...s. I know that most of the traditions concerning the Phliasians are contradictory, but I shall make use of those which have been most generally accepted. They say that the first man in this land was Aras , who sprang from the soil. He founded a city around that hillock which even down to our day is called the Arantine Hill, not far distant from a second hill on which the Phliasians have their citadel ...