Book 7
frag.11a
The ethnici.e., the name of the tribe which corresponds to the name of the city. of Botteia“A city in Macedonia” (Etymologicum Magnum, s.v.) is spelled with the “i”,i.e., not with the e, as is Βοττεάτης the ethnic of Βόττεα (see Etym. Magn., l.c.), but with the i, as is Βοττιαῖοι. according to Strabo in his Seventh Book. And the city is calledsc. Botteia. after Botton the Cretan.The country was called “Bottiaea” (6. 3. 6), “Bottia,” and “Bottiaeis,” and the inhabitants “Bottiaei” (6. 3. 2). See Pauly-Wissowa, s.v. Βόττια and Βοττική and Meritt, Am. Jour. Arch., 1923, pp. 336 ff.
frag.11b
Amphaxion. Two parts of speech.i.e., the preposition “amphi” (“on both sides of”) and the noun “Axius” (the “Axius” River). A city. The ethnic of Amphaxion is Amphaxites.
frag.12
The Peneius forms the boundary between Lower Macedonia, or that part of Macedonia which is close to the sea, and Thessaly and Magnesia; the Haliacmon forms the boundary of Upper Macedonia; and the Haliacmon also, together with the Erigon and the Axius and another set of rivers, form the boundary of the Epeirotes and the Paeonians.
frag.12a
For if, according to the Geographer, Macedonia stretches from the Thessalian Pelion and Peneius towards the interior as far as Paeonia and the Epeirote tribes, and if the Greeks had at Troy an allied force from Paeonia, it is difficult to conceive that an allied force came to the Trojans from the aforesaid more distant part of Paeonia.
