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10 STRABO. CASAUB. 338. And Nestor introduces the daughter of Augeas, king of the Epeii, in his account of the war with that people, as one who administered poisons : " I first slew a man, 1 Mulius, a brave soldier. He was son-in-law of Augeas ; he had married his eldest daughter ; she was acquainted with all the poisons which the earth brings forth." There is also near Sicyon a river, Selleis, and a village of the name of Ephyra near it; and a village Ephyra in the territory of Agraa in JEtolia, the people of which are called Ephyri. There are also other Ephyri among the Perrhsebi near Macedonia, who are Crannonians, 2 and the Thesprotic Ephyri of Cichyrus, which was formerly called Ephyra. 6. Apollodorus, when he informs us in what manner the poet usually distinguishes places with the same names, as Orchomenus for instance, designating that in Arcadia by the epithet, "abounding with sheep;" the Boeotian Orchomenus, as "Minyeius;" by applying to Samos the term Thracian, and adds, " Between Samos and Imbros," 3 to distinguish it from Ionian Samos ; so he says the Thes- protic Ephyra is distinguished from others by the words, " at a distance," and "from the river Selleis." This does not agree with what Demetrius of Scepsis says, from whom he borrows most of his information. For Demetrius does not say that there is a river Selleis in Thesprotia, but in Elis, near the Thesprotic Ephyra, as I have said before. What he says also about QEchalia requires examination, where he asserts that the city of Eurytus of CEchalia is the only city, when there is more than one city of that name. It is therefore evident that he means the Thessalian city men- tioned by Homer : " And they who occupied CEchalia, the city of Eurytus, the CEchalian." * What city, then, is that on the road from which " Thamyris 1 II. xi. 738. 2 I read ot icai, as Meineke suggests, but the whole -passage from "there is " to " Ephyra," is, as he also remarks, probably an interpolation. Strabo has already enumerated four cities of the name of Ephyra, viz. the Eliac, the Thesprotic, the Corinthian, and the Thessalian ; yet here two others are presented to our notice, the Sicyonian and the ./Etolian, of which Strabo makes no mention in his account of JStolia and Sicyonia. 8 II. xxiv. 78. 4 II. ii. 730.