Greek Texts & Translations

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After Thespiae the poet enumerates Graia and Mycalessus, of which we have before spoken.

He proceeds as before, They who lived near Harma, Eilesium, and Erythrae,
And they who occupied Eleon, Hyle, and Peteon. ^note
Il. ii. 499. Peteon is a village of the Thebais near the road to Anthedon. Ocalea is midway between Haliartus, ^note and Alalcomene, ^note it is distant from each 30 stadia. A small river of the same name flows by it. Medeon, belonging to Phocis, is on the Crisaean Gulf, distant from Boeotia 160 stadia. The Medeon of Boeotia has its name from that in Phocis. It is near Onchestus, under the mountain Phoenicium, ^note whence it has the appellation of Phoenicis. This mountain is likewise assigned to the Theban district, but by others to the territories of Haliartus, as also Medeon and Ocalea. 27

Homer afterwards names, Copae, and Eutresis, and Thisbe, abounding with doves. ^note
Il. ii. 502.