Book 8
3.26
And from thence he directed the vessel to the sharp-pointed islands, νήσοισι θοηαὶ;Od. iv. 671; xv. 298. the sharp-pointed (ὀξείαι) he calls θοαὶ. They belong to the Echinades, and are near the commencement of the Corinthian Gulf and the mouths of the Achelous. After having sailed past Ithaca so as to leave the island behind him, he turns to the proper course between Acarnania and Ithaca, and disembarks on the other side of the island, not at the strait of Cephallenia, where the suitors were on the watch.
