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[The temple of] Apollo and [the Isle of] Anaphe, note
In the verses which commence,
Near to Laconian Thera. note
I sing how the heroes from Cytaean Aeeta,
And again concerning the Colchians, who,
Return'd again to ancient Aemonia. note
Ceasing to plough with oars the Illyrian Sea, note
Near to the tomb of fair Harmonia,
Who was transform'd into a dragon's shape,
Founded their city, which a Greek would call
The Town of Fugitives, but in their tongue
Is Pola named.
Some writers assert that Jason and his companions sailed high up the Ister, others say he sailed only so far as to be able to gain the Adriatic: the first statement results altogether from ignorance; the second, which supposes there is a second Ister having its source from the larger river of the same name, and discharging its waters into the Adriatic, is neither incredible nor even improbable. note 40
Starting from these premises, the poet, in conformity
both with general custom and his own practice, narrates some
circumstances as they actually occurred, and paints others in
the colours of fiction. He follows history when he tells us of
Aeetes and Jason also, when he talks of Argo, and on the authority of [the actual city of Aea], feigns his city of Aeaea,
when he settles Euneos in Lemnos, and makes that island
friendly to Achilles, and when, in imitation of Medea, he makes
the sorceress Circe
Sister by birth of the all-wise Aeetes, note
Odyssey x. 137.
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