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Asteria, note or Asteris, as t is called by the poet, which, according to Demetrius, the Scepsian, does not remain in the state
described by the poet,
there are harbours in it, open on both sides, for the reception of vessels. note
Od. iv. 846.
The poet also gives the name of Samos to Thracia,
which we now call Samothracé. He was probably acquainted
with the Ionian island, for he seems to have been acquainted
with the Ionian migration. He would not, otherwise, have
made a distinction between islands of the same names, for in
speaking of Samothrace, he makes the distinction sometimes
by the epithet,
on high, upon the loftiest summit of the woody Samos, the Thracian, note
Il. xiii. 12.
to Samos, and Imbros, and inaccessible Lemnos; note
Il. xxiv. 753.
between Samos and rocky Imbros. note
Il. xxiv. 78.
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