Book 8
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The poet frequently speaks of places in succession as they are situated; they who inhabited Hyria, and Aulis;Il. ii. 496. and they who occupied Argos, and Tiryns, Hermione, and Asine, Troezen, and Eiones.Il. ii. 559. At other times he does not observe any order; Schoenus, and Scolus, Thespeia, and Graea.Il. ii. 497.Il. ii. 497. He also mentions together places on the continent and islands; they who held Ithaca, and inhabited Crocyleia,Il. ii. 632.Il. ii. 632. for Crocyleia is in Acarnania. Thus he here joins with Aegina Mases, which belongs to the continent of Argolis.
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Homer does not mention Thyreae, but other writers speak of it as well known. It was the occasion of a contest between the three hundred Argives against the same number of Lacedaemonians; the latter were conquerors by means of a stratagem of Othryadas. Thucydides places Thyreae in Cynuria, on the confines of Argia and Laconia.Thucyd. ii. 27; iv. 56.
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Hysiae also is a celebrated place in Argolica; and Cenchreae, which lies on the road from Tegea to Argos, over the mountain Parthenius, and the Creopolus.A place not known. But Homer was not acquainted with either of these places, [nor with the Lyrceium, nor Orneae, and yet they are villages in the Argian territory; the former of the same name as the mountain there; the latter of the same name as the Orneae, situated between Corinth and Sicyon].Probably interpolated.
