of Pindar) when Hercules sailed from Troy through the virgin strait of Hella, and arrived at the Myrtoan Sea, he returned back to Cos, in consequence of the wind Zephyrus blowing contrary to his course. Thus some consider it correct to apply the name Hellespont to the whole of the Ægæan Sea, and the sea along the coast of Thessaly and Macedonia, invoking the testimony of Homer, who says,
"Thou shall see, if such thy will, in spring,
My ships shall sail to Hellespont."
But the argument is contradicted in the following lines,
"Piros, Imbracius' son, who came from Ænos."
Piros commanded the Thracians,
"Whose limits are the quick-flowing Hellespont."
So that he would consider all people settled next to the Thracians as excluded from the Hellespont. For Ænos is situated in the district formerly called Apsynthis, but now Corpilice. The territory of the Cicones is next towards the west. E.
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