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17. The poet having proceeded so far along the Magnesian
coast, returns to Upper Thessaly, for beginning from Dolopia
and Pindus he goes through the region extending along
Phthiotis to Lower Thessaly.
They who occupy Tricca and rocky Ithome. note
Il. ii. 729.
Tricca, note where there is a very ancient and famous temple of Aesculapius, borders upon the Dolopes, and the parts about Pindus.
Ithome, which has the same name as the Messenian Ithome,
ought not, they say, to be pronounced in this manner, but
should be pronounced without the first syllable, Thome, for
this was its former name. At present, it is changed to
[Thumaeum]. It is a spot strong by nature, and in reality
rocky. It lies between four strong-holds, which form a square,
Tricca, Metropolis, Pelinnaeum, and Gomphi. note Ithome belongs to the district of the Metropolitae. Metropolis was
formed at first out of three small obscure cities, and afterwards more were included, and among these Ithome. Callimachus says in his Iambics,
among the Venuses, (for the goddess bears several titles,) Venus Castnietis surpasses all others in wisdom,
for she alone accepts the sacrifice of swine. Certainly Callimachus, if any person could be said to possess information,
was well informed, and it was his object, as he himself says,
all his life to relate these fables. Later writers, however,
have proved that there was not one Venus only, but several,
who accepted that sacrifice, from among whom the goddess
worshipped at Metropolis came, and that this [foreign] rite
was delivered down by one of the cities which contributed to
form that settlement.
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