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as when I first left Ormenium, abounding with flocks, note
Il. ix. 447.
left Hellas, abounding with beautiful women.
But Crates makes Phoenix a Phocaean, conjecturing this
from the helmet of Meges, which Ulysses wore on the night
expedition; of which helmet the poet says,
Autolycus brought it away from Eleon, out of the house of Amyntor,
the son of Ormenus, having broken through the thick walls. note
Now Eleon was a small city on Parnassus, and by Amyntor, the son of Ormenus, he could not mean any other person
than the father of Phoenix, and that Autolycus, who lived on
Parnassus, was in the habit of digging through the houses of
his neighbours, which is the common practice of every housebreaker, and not of persons living at a distance. But Demetrius the Scepsian says, that there is no such place on Parnassus as Eleon, but Neon, which was built after the Trojan
war, and that digging through houses was not confined to
robbers of the neighbourhood. Other things might be advanced, but I am unwilling to insist long on this subject.
Others write the words
from Heleon;
but this is a Tanagrian town; and the words
Then far away I fled through Hellas and came to Phthia, note
Il. ix. 424.
Hypereia is a spring in the middle of the city of the Pheraei [subject to Eumelus]. It would therefore be absurd [to assign it to Eurypylus].
Titanus note had its name from the accident of its colour, for the soil of the country near Arne and [Aphe]tae is white, and Asterium is not far from these places. 19
Continuous with this portion of Thessaly are the people subject to Polypoetes.
They who possessed Argissa; those who inhabited Gyrtone, note
Il. ii. 738
Orthe, Elone, and the white city Oloosson. note
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