Greek Texts & Translations

name of Curetes from the mountain Curium, ^note which is situated above Pleuron, and that this is an Aetolian tribe, like the Ophieis, Agraei, Eurytanes, and many others.

But, as we have before said, when Aetolia was divided into two parts, the country about Calydon was said to be in the possession of Oeneus; and a portion of Pleuronia in that of the Porthaonidae of the branch of Agrius, ^note for they dwelt at Pleuron, and the lofty Calydon. ^note
Il. xiv. 117. Thestius however, father-in-law of Oeneus, and father of Althea, chief of the Curetes, was master of Pleuronia. But when war broke out between the Thestiadae, Oeneus, and Meleager about a boar's head and skin, according to the poet, ^note following the fable concerning the boar of Calydon, but, as is probable, the dispute related to a portion of the territory; the words are these, Curetes and Aetolians, firm in battle, fought against one another. ^note
Il. ix. 525. These then are the facts more immediately connected (with geography). 7

There ^note are others more remote from the subject of this