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23. This may be true, says he, but some expressions are to
be understood as loosely applied, such as these,
Far from Ascania, note
Il. ii. 863.
His name was Arnaeus, given to him by his honoured mother, note
Od. xviii. 5.
Penelope seized the well-turned key with her firm hand. note
Od. xxi. 6.
But Demetrius does not altogether agree with those whose opinions he espouses. For when he is describing the neighbourhood of Scepsis his own birth-place, he mentions Enea, a village, Argyria, and Alazonia, as near Scepsis, and the Aesepus; note but if these places exist at all, they must be near the sources of the Aesepus. Hecataeus places them beyond the mouths of that river. Palsaephatus, who says that the Amazons formerly occupied Alope, and at present Zeleia, does not advance anything in agreement with these statements. But if Menecrates agrees with Demetrius, neither does Menecrates say what this Alope, or Alobe, is, (or, in whatever manner they please to write the name,) nor yet does Demetrius himself. 24
With regard to Apollodorus, who mentions these places in his discourse on the array of the Trojan forces, we have
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Strabo, Geography (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Str.].