Greek Texts & Translations

And Juno starting from the Olympian height
O'erflew Pieria and the lovely plains
Of broad Emathia; ^note soaring thence she swept
The snow-clad summit of the Thracian hills ^note
Steed-famed, nor printed, as she pass'd, the soil,
From Athos ^note the foaming billows borne. ^note
In the Catalogue he does not describe his cities in regular order, because here there was no necessity, but both the people and foreign countries he arranges correctly. Having wandered to Cyprus, and Phoenice, and the Egyptians, I came to the Ethiopians, and Sidonians, and Erembi, and Libya. ^note Hipparchus has drawn attention to this. But the two tragedians where there was great necessity for proper arrangement, one ^note where he introduces Bacchus visiting the nations, the other ^note Triptolemus sowing the earth, have brought in juxta-position places far remote, and separated those which were near.

And having left the wealthy lands of the Lydians and Phrygians, and the sunny plains of the Persians and the Bactrian walls, and having come over the stormy land of the Medes, and the Happy Arabia. ^note And the Triptolemus is just as inaccurate.

Further, in respect to the winds and climates, Homer shows the wide extent of his geographical knowledge, for in his