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The present Cephallenia he calls Samos, as when he says, in the strait between Ithaca and the hilly Samos,Od. iv. 671Od. iv. 671 he makes a distinction between places of the same name by an epithet, assigning the name not to the city, but to the island. For the island contains four cities, one of which, called Samos, or Same, for it had either appellation, bore the same name as the island. But when the poet says, all the chiefs of the islands, Dulichium, Same, and the woody Zacynthus,Od. i. 246.Od. i. 246. he is evidently enumerating the islands, and calls that Same which he had before called Samos.
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But Apollodorus at one time says that the ambiguity is removed by the epithet, which the poet uses, when he says, and hilly Samos, meaning the island; and at another time he pretends that we ought to write Dulichium, and Samos, and not Same, and evidently supposes that the city is called by either name, Samos or Samé, but the island by that of Samos only. That the city is called Same is evident from the enumeration of the suitors from each city, where the poet says, there are four and twenty from Samé,Od. xvi. 249.Od. xvi. 249. and from what is said about Ctimene, they afterwards gave her in marriage at Samé.Od. xv. 366.Od. xv. 366.
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There is reason in this. For the poet does not express himself distinctly either about Cephallenia, or Ithaca, or the other neighbouring places, so that both historians and commentators differ from one another.
