Book 8
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The greater part of the city of the Argives is situated in a plain. It has a citadel called Larisa, a hill moderately fortified, and upon it a temple of Jupiter. Near it flows the Inachus, a torrent river; its source is in Lyrceium [the Arcadian mountain near Cynuria]. We have said before that the fabulous stories about its sources are the inventions of poets; it is a fiction also that Argos is without water— but the gods made Argos a land without water. Now the ground consists of hollows, it is intersected by rivers, and is full of marshes and lakes; the city also has a copious supply of water from many wells, which rises near the surface.
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They attribute the mistake to this verse, and I shall return disgraced to Argos (πολυδιψιον) the very thirsty.Il. iv. 171.Il. iv. 171. This word is used for πολυπόθητον, or much longed after, or without the δ for πολυίψιον, equivalent to the expression πολύφθορον in Sophocles, this house of the Pelopidae abounding in slaughter,Sophocles, El. 10. [for ποͅοϊάψαι and ἰάψαι and ἴψασθαι, denote some injury or destruction; at present he is making the attempt, and he will soon-destroy (ἴψεται) the sons of the Achaei;Il. ii. 193. and again, lest she should injure (ἰάψνͅ) her beautiful skin;Od. ii. 376.Od. ii. 376. and, has prematurely sent down, προί͂αψεν, to Ades.Il. i. 3.]Probably an interpolation. Meineke.Il. i. 3.
