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[406] Probably an interpolation.
[407] Leake places it at Tzamali, but Forchammer with more probability at Avro-Kastro.
[408] Εὐδείελος.
[409] Scripu.
[410] Bogdana.
[411] Aspra-Spitia.
[412] Kastri.
[413] Daulia.
[414] It is a continuation of the ridge of Œta.
[415] La Punta.
[416] Od. viii. 75.
[417] Aspra Spitia.
[418] At the mouth of the Spercheius.
[419] The ruins are near Chryso.
[420] Apparently an interpolation. Groskurd.
[421] ἀφήτωρ.
[422] Il. ix. 404.
[423] A conjecture by Kramer.
[424] Pausanias, b. x. c. 5, speaks of a temple of Apollo at Delphi, which was supposed to have been constructed by bees, with their combs and wings.
[425] Of which Spintharus the Corinthian was the architect. Pausanias, b. x. c. 5.
[426] Κιθαρῳδοὶ, played on the cithara, accompanying it with words.
[427] Κιθαρισταὶ, played on the cithara alone.
[428] μέλος.
[429] νόμος.
[430] σύριγξ.
[431] Groskurd and Meineke propose emendations of the text of this passage. The translation is rather a paraphrase.
[432] Probably, says Palmer, the expression is derived from ἵε παίε, O strike, or ἵε παῖ, O youth.
[433] Aspra-Spitia.
[434] ὄπισθεν, “behind it,” but Marathus is on the opposite side of the bay. The ruins are indicated in modern maps.
[435] The bay of Metochi d’Hagia.
[436] Zagora.
[437] This place is represented in the Austrian map by ruins near Exarcho. But how does Strabo place “not far from” the Crisæan Gulf, Abæ, which was certainly near Hyampolis, on the borders of the Locri Epicnemidii? It is on the authority of this passage only that geographers have placed a second Abæ behind Ambrysus, at the foot of Parnassus.
[438] Distomo?
[439] Daulia.
[440] Il. ii. 519.
[441] Od. vii. 324.
[442] ἄνεμος, the wind.
[443] The Look-out.
[444] 457, B. C.
[445] This place was destroyed in the Persian war; no remains existed in the time of Pausanias.
[446] The ruins are situated on the east of Turkochorio, made a free state by the Romans. Pausanias, b. x. ch. 34.
[447] Demos. pro Coronâ, B. C. 338.
[448] Il. ii. 523.
[449] The quotation is from a lost poem.
[450] Conjectures of Groskurd, and approved by Kramer.
[451] Meineke supposes these words to be an interpolation, because no mention is made by other writers, nor by Strabo himself, in his enumeration of the rivers in Argolis, of the existence of a river called Cephissus at Argos.
[452] Polina.
[453] Dyrrachium, now Durazzo.
[454] The site appears to have been to the south-east of the modern town Neochorio.
[455] From hence to the close of the paragraph the text is very corrupt; the restorations are due to the conjectures of Du Theil, Groskurd, and Kramer.
[456] Schedius, according to Homer, Il. ii. 517, and Il. xvii. 306, was one of the chiefs of the Phocians.
[457] The ruins of Opus are indicated as existing between Talanti and the sea.
[458] A portion of the ridge of Œta, on the north-west of Talanti, now Chlomos.
[459] A monument, or cenotaph, common to many persons.
[460] The site is marked by a tower called Paleopyrgo, near the modern Lebanitis.
[461] Mentioned by Athenæus, b. iii. Hot springs were generally sacred to Hercules.
[462] Diodorus Siculus asserts that it was separated from the continent by an earthquake; but statements of this kind were commonly and hastily made, where the natural appearances were favourable to them.
[463] Il. xxiii. 85.
[464] Il. xviii. 326.
[465] The ruins have been discovered by Gell on an insulated hill, near the sea-shore.
[466] Paleocastro, in Marmara, near Romani.
[467] A conjecture by Groskurd.
[468] βῆσσαι and νάπη, wooded hollows.
[469] In the island of Lesbos.
[470] Il. ii. 535.
[471] Salona, or Lampeni.
[472] Lepanto.
[473] Castel de Roumeli.
[474] Il. ii. 640.
[475] From ὀζεῖν, to smell.
[476] Maurolimne.
[477] The site is unknown.
[478] Near Dervend-Elapha.
[479] The Hellada.
[480] B. vii. c. 198, and c. 200.