Greek Texts & Translations

(the silver mines,) ^note which are another fiction framed to sup port the same hypothesis, in order that the words of Homer may be defended, where silver is produced. ^note
Il. ii. 856.

Where then is Alybe, or Alope, or in whatever way they please to play upon the name? For they ought to have had the impudence to invent this place also, and not to leave their system imperfect and exposed to detection, when they had once ventured so far. This is the contradiction which may be given to Demetrius.

As to the rest, we ought at least in the greatest number of instances to attend to a man of experience, and a native of the country, who also had bestowed so much thought and time on this subject as to write thirty books to interpret little more than 60 lines of the catalogue of the Trojan forces.

Palaescepsis, according to Demetrius, is distant from Aenea 50, and from the river Aesepus 30, stadia, and the name of Palaescepsis is applied to many other places. ^note

We return to the sea-coast, from which we have digressed. 46

After the Sigeian promontory, and the Achilleium, is the coast opposite to Tenedos, the Achaeïum, and Tenedos itself, distant not more than 40 stadia from the continent. It is about 80 stadia in circumference. It contains an Aeolian city, and has two harbours, and a temple of Apollo Smintheus, as the poet testifies; Smintheus, thou that reignest over Tenedos. ^note
Il. i. 38. There are several small islands around it, and two in particular, called Calydne, ^note situated in the course of the voyage to Lectum. There are some writers who call Tenedos Calydna,