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Thereupon the Greeks resolved that they would send a land army to Thessaly by sea to guard the pass. When the forces had assembled, they passed through the Euripus and came to Alus in Achaea, where they disembarked and took the road for Thessaly, leaving their ships where they were. They then came to the pass of Tempe, which runs from the lower1 Macedonia into Thessaly along the river Peneus, between the mountains Olympus and Ossa.

1 As opposed to the hill country further inland.

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