Volume 1
The geography of Strabo / Literally translated, with notes. The first six books by H. C .Hamilton, esq., the remainder by W. Falconer.
- Strabo
- Date:
- 1854-1857
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The geography of Strabo / Literally translated, with notes. The first six books by H. C .Hamilton, esq., the remainder by W. Falconer. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the Deinus’ in Ithaca, Pelethronium^ in Peliura, and the Glaucopium at Athens.^ With the.se and a few similar triflin? observations, most of which he lias drawn from Eratostlienes, whose inaccuracy we have before shown, he breaks off. How- ever, we frankly acknowledge, both with respect to him [Apollodorus] and Eratosthenes, that the moderns are better informed on geography than the ancients: but to strain the subject beyond measure, as they do, especially when they in- culpate Homer, seems to me as if it gave a fair occasion to any one to find fault, and to say by way of recrimination, that they reproach the poet for the very things of which they themselves are ignorant. As for the rest of their observa- tions, particular mention is made of some of them in the places where they occur, and of others in the General Intro- duction. 7. It has been our wish, while discoursing of the Thracians, and “ the bold Close-fighting Mysian race, and where abide, On milk sustain’d, and blest with length of days. The Hippemolgi, justest of mankind,” * * Schol. in Homer, edit. Villois. pag. 382,) which was situated near Cvl- lene, a mountain of Arcadia, where he was bom. See .Apollodor. Bibli- oth. lib. iii. cap. x. ^ 2. Hesiod, however, applies the same epithet to Prometheus, ('I'heogon. verse (il3,) who, according to the scholiast, was thus designated from .Acacesium, a mountain, not a cavern, of .Arcadia. wherehe was greatly revered. ' Homer, Iliad iii. verse 201, in speaking of Ulysses, says, Of rgd^i) tv Sfiytit ’lOaKtjg. Some writers affirmed that the Ai}/jof was the name of a place in Ithaca, while others think it a word, and understand the passage “ who was bred in the country of I ihaca.” On comparing this passage wiih others, Iliad xvi. vss. 437, 514, and with a parallel expression of Hesiod. Theogon. verso 971, one is greatly astonished at the ignorance and eccen- tricity of those who sought to make a place Demus out of this passage of Homer. ’ According to some, Pelethronium was a city of Thessalv; according to others, it was a mountain there, or even a part of .Mount Pelion. * There is no mention of any Glaucopium throughout the writings of Homer. Eustathius, on the Odyssey, book ii. page 1451, remarks that it wiis from the epithet yXai'ewTrif, blue-eyed or lierce-ej'cd, which he so often gives to Minerva, tJiat the citadel at .Athens was called the Glauco- pium, while Stephen of Hyz.aiitium, on 'A\a\Kogerior, asserts that both the epithet yXaeecuTrif and the name of the citadel Glaucopium comes from Glaucopus, the son of .Alalcomcncus. ‘ And tlie close-lighting .Mysians, and the illustrious Hippemolgi, milk-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24872556_0001_0474.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
