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142 STRABO. CASAUB. 438. Pharcadon also is situated in the Hestiseotis. The Peneius and the Curalius flow through it. The Curalius, after flow- ing beside the temple of the Itonian Minerva, empties itself into the Peneius. The Peneius itself rises in Mount Pindus, as I have before said. It leaves Tricca, Pelirmseum, and Pharcadon on the left hand, and takes its course beside Atrax and Larisa. After having received the rivers of the Thessaliotis it flows onwards through Ternpe, and it empties itself into the sea. Historians speak of CEchalia, the city of Eurytus, as exist- ing in these parts, in Eubcea also, and in Arcadia ; but some give it one name, others another, as I have said in the de- scription of Peloponnesus. They inquire particularly, which of these was the city taken by Hercules, and which was the city intended by the author of the poem, " The Capture of CEchalia ?" The places, however, were subject to the Asclepiadse. 18. The poet next mentions the country which was under the dominion of Eurypylus ; " They who possessed Ormemum and the spring Hypereia, And they who occupied Asterium and the white peaks of Titanus." l Ormenium is now called Orminium. It is a village situ- ated below Pelion, near the Pagasitic Gulf, but was one of the cities which contributed to form the settlement of Deme- trias, as I have before said. The lake Boebeis must be near, because both Boebe and Ormenium belonged to the cities lying around Demetrias. Ormenium is distant by land 27 stadia from Demetrias. The site of lolcus, which is on the road, is distant 7 stadia from Demetrias, and the remaining 20 from Ormenium. Demetrius of Scepsis says, that Phoenix came from Or- menium, and that he fled thence from his father Amyntor, the son of Ormenus, to Phthia, to king Peleus. For this place was founded by Ormenus, the son of Cercaphus, the son of >!Eolus. The sons of Ormenus were Amyntor and Euaemon ; the son of the former was Phrenix, and of the latter, Eurypy- lus. The succession to his possessions was preserved secure for Eurypylus, after the departure of Pho3nix from his home, and we ought to write the verse of the poet in this manner : 1 II. ii. 734.