B. ix. c. v. 18, 19. THESSALY. 143 " as when I first left Ormenium, abounding with flocks," l instead of "left Hellas, abounding with beautiful women." But Crates makes Phoenix a Phocsean, conjecturing this from the helmet of Meges, which Ulysses wore on the night expedition ; of which helmet the poet says, " Autolycus brought it away from Elepn, out of the house of Amyntor, the son of Ormenus, having broken through the thick walls." 2 Now Eleon was a small city on Parnassus, and by Amyn- tor, the son of Ormenus, he could not mean any other person than the father of Phoenix, and that Autolycus, who lived on Parnassus, was in the habit of digging through the houses of his neighbours, which is the common practice of every house- breaker, and not of persons living at a distance. But Deme- trius the Scepsian says, that there is no such place on Par- nassus as Eleon, but Neon, which was built after the Trojan war, and that digging through houses was not confined to robbers of the neighbourhood. Other things might be ad- vanced, but I am unwilling to insist long on this subject. Others write the words " from Heleon ; " but this is a Tanagrian town ; and the words " Then far away I fled through Hellas and came to Phthia," 3 would make this passage absurd. Hypereia is a spring in the middle of the city of the Phe- raei [subject to Eumelus]. It would therefore be absurd [to assign it to Eurypylus]. Titanus 4 had its name from the accident of its colour, for the soil of the country near Arne and [Aphe]tee is white, and Asterium is not far from these places. 19. Continuous with this portion of Thessaly are the peo- ple subject to Polypoetes. " They who possessed Argissa; those who inhabited Gyrtone, 5 Orthe, Elone, and the white city Oloosson." 6 This country was formerly inhabited by Perrhasbi, who 1 11. ix. 447. 2 II. x. 226. 3 II. ix. 42 1.
- riravoQ, chalk. 5 Tcheritchiano.
6 11. ii. 738.
