§8.3.4ἔστι δέ τις ἄκρα τῆς Ἠλείας πρόσβορρος ἀπὸ ἑξήκοντα Δύμης Ἀχαϊκῆς πόλεως Ἄραξος.
There is a northernmost cape of Eleia, Araxos, sixty stadia distant from the Achaean city of Dyme.
ταύτην μὲν οὖν ἀρχὴν τίθεμεν τῆς τῶν Ἠλείων παραλίας· μετὰ δὲ ταύτην ἐστὶν ἐπὶ τὴν ἑσπέραν προϊοῦσι τὸ τῶν Ἠλείων ἐπίνειον ἡ Κυλλήνη, ἀνάβασιν ἔχουσα ἐπὶ τὴν νῦν πόλιν ἑκατὸν καὶ εἴκοσι σταδίων.
We therefore establish this as the starting point of the coast of the Eleians; and next after this, as one proceeds toward the west, is Kyllene, the port of the Eleians, which has an ascent to the present city of one hundred and twenty stadia.
μέμνηται δὲ τῆς Κυλλήνης ταύτης καὶ Ὅμηρος λέγων Ὦτον Κυλλήνιον ἀρχὸν Ἐπειῶν.
Homer also mentions this Kyllene, calling Otos 'the Kyllenian leader of the Epeians'.
οὐ γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀρκαδικοῦ ὄρους ὄντα ἔμελλεν ἡγεμόνα τῶν Ἐπειῶν ἀποφῆναι·
For he was not likely to represent him, being from the Arcadian mountain, as a leader of the Epeians.
ἔστι δὲ κώμη μετρία, τὸν Ἀσκληπιὸν ἔχουσα τὸν Κολώτου, θαυμαστὸν ἰδεῖν ξόανον ἐλεφάντινον.
Kyllene is a village of moderate size, possessing the Asclepius of Kolotes, a wonderful wooden statue overlaid with ivory.
μετὰ δὲ Κυλλήνην ἀκρωτήριόν ἐστιν ὁ Χελωνάτας, δυσμικώτατον τῆς Πελοποννήσου σημεῖον.
After Kyllene is Cape Chelonatas, the westernmost point of the Peloponnesus.
πρόκειται δʼ αὐτοῦ νησίον καὶ βραχέα ἐν μεθορίοις τῆς τε κοίλης Ἤλιδος Πισατῶν, ὅθεν εἰς Κεφαλληνίαν πλέοντι εους στάδιοι ὀγδοήκοντα.
Before it lies a small island and shallows on the boundary between Hollow Elis and the Pisatans, whence for one sailing to Cephallenia it is eighty stadia.
αὐτοῦ δέ που καὶ ὁ Ἐλίσων ἢ Ἔλισα ῥεῖ ποταμὸς ἐν τῇ λεχθείσῃ μεθορίᾳ.
And somewhere there flows also the river Elison or Elisa, in the said boundary.
§8.3.5μεταξὺ δὲ τοῦ Χελωνάτα καὶ τῆς Κυλλήνης ὅ τε Πηνειὸς ἐκδίδωσι ποταμὸς καὶ ὁ Σελλήεις ὑπὸ τοῦ ποιητοῦ λεγόμενος, ῥέων ἐκ Φολόης· ἐφʼ ᾧ Ἐφύρα πόλις, ἑτέρα τῆς Θεσπρωτικῆς καὶ Θετταλικῆς καὶ τῆς Κορίνθου, τετάρτη τις ἐπὶ τῇ ὁδῷ κειμένη τῇ ἐπὶ Λασίωνα, ἤτοι ἡ αὐτὴ οὖσα τῇ Βοινώᾳ (τὴν γὰρ Οἰνόην οὕτω καλεῖν εἰώθασιν) ἢ πλησίον ἐκείνης, διέχουσα τῆς Ἠλείων πόλεως σταδίους ἑκατὸν εἴκοσιν· ἐξ ἧς ἥ τε Τληπολέμου τοῦ Ἡρακλέους δοκεῖ λέγεσθαι μήτηρ
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τὴν ἄγετʼ ἐξ Ἐφύρης ποταμοῦ ἄπο Σελλήεντος
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(ἐκεῖ γὰρ μᾶλλον αἱ τοῦ Ἡρακλέους στρατεῖαι, πρὸς ἐκείναις τε οὐδεὶς ποταμὸς Σελλήεις), καὶ ὁ τοῦ Μέγητος
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τόν ποτε Φυλεὺς
ἤγαγεν ἐξ Ἐφύρης ποταμοῦ ἄπο Σελλήεντος
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ἐξ ἧς καὶ τὰ φάρμακα τὰ ἀνδροφόνα. εἰς Ἐφύραν γὰρ ἀφῖχθαι φησὶ τὸν Ὀδυσσέα
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φάρμακον ἀνδροφόνον διζήμενον, ὄφρα οἱ εἴη
ἰοὺς χρίεσθαι
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καὶ τὸν Τηλέμαχον οἱ μνηστῆρες
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ἠὲ καὶ εἰς Ἐφύρην ἐθέλει πίειραν ἄρουραν
ἐλθεῖν, ὄφρʼ ἔνθεν θυμοφθόρα φάρμακʼ ἐνείκῃ.
Between Chelonatas and Kyllene, the river Peneius empties, and also the Selleeis, mentioned by the poet, which flows from Pholoe; upon which is the city of Ephyra, a fourth Ephyra, different from those in Thesprotia, Thessaly, and Corinth, situated on the road to Lasion, being either the same as Boinoa (for they are accustomed to call Oinoe thus) or near it, and distant one hundred and twenty stadia from the city of the Eleians; and it is from this Ephyra that the mother of Tlepolemos the son of Herakles seems to be spoken of: "whom he brought out of Ephyra from the river Selleeis "(for it was rather there that the campaigns of Herakles took place, and near those other cities there is no river Selleeis); and also that of Meges: "which Phyleus once brought out of Ephyra from the river Selleeis "and it was from this city too that the man-slaying drugs came; for the poet says that Odysseus went to Ephyra: "seeking a man-slaying drug, so that he might have it to smear his arrows "and the suitors say of Telemachos: "or whether he wishes to go to the fertile soil of Ephyra, so that he may bring from there soul-destroying drugs.
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καὶ γὰρ τὴν Αὐγέου θυγατέρα τοῦ τῶν Ἐπειῶν βασιλέως ὁ Νέστωρ ἐν τῇ διηγήσει τοῦ πρὸς αὐτοὺς πολέμου φαρμακίδα εἰσάγει
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πρῶτος ἐγὼν ἕλον ἄνδρα φήσας
Μούλιον αἰχμητήν, γαμβρὸς δʼ ἦν Αὐγείαο,
πρεσβυτάτην δὲ θύγατρʼ εἶχεν,
ἣ τόσα φάρμακα ᾔδη, ὅσα τρέφει εὐρεῖα χθών.
"Indeed, Nestor too, in his narrative of the war against them, introduces the daughter of Augeas, the king of the Epeians, as a sorceress: "I was the first to slay a man, the spearman Mulios; he was the son-in-law of Augeas, and had to wife his eldest daughter, who knew all the drugs that the wide earth nourishes.
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ἔστι δὲ καὶ περὶ Σικυῶνα Σελλήεις ποταμὸς καὶ Ἐφύρα πλησίον κώμη, καὶ ἐν τῇ Ἀγραίᾳ τῆς Αἰτωλίας Ἐφύρα κώμη, οἱ δʼ ἀπʼ αὐτῆς Ἔφυροι· καὶ ἄλλοι οἱ Περραιβῶν πρὸς Μακεδονία, οἱ Κραννώνιοι, καὶ οἱ Θεσπρωτικοὶ οἱ ἐκ Κιχύρου τῆς πρότερον Ἐφύρας.
"There is also a river Selleeis near Sicyon, and an Ephyra as a village nearby, and in the Agraia of Aetolia an Ephyra as a village, whose inhabitants are called Ephyroi; and others among the Perrhaebi near Macedonia, who are the Krannonians, and the Thesprotian Ephyra from Kichyros, which was formerly called Ephyra.
§8.3.6Ἀπολλόδωρος δὲ διδάσκων ὃν τρόπον ὁ ποιητὴς εἴωθε διαστέλλεσθαι τὰς ὁμωνυμίας, οἷον ἐπὶ τοῦ Ὀρχομενοῦ τὸν μὲν Ἀρκαδικὸν πολύμηλον καλῶν τὸν δὲ Βοιωτιακὸν Μινύειον, καὶ Σάμον Θρηικίην συντιθείς
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μεσσηγύς τε Σάμοιο καὶ Ἴμβρου,
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ἵνα χωρίσῃ ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰωνικῆς, οὕτω φησὶ καὶ τὴν Θεσπρωτικὴν Ἐφύραν διαστέλλεσθαι τῷ τε τηλόθεν καὶ τῷ
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ποταμοῦ ἄπο Σελλήεντος.
And Apollodorus, when teaching the manner in which the poet is accustomed to distinguish homonyms—as in the case of Orchomenos, calling the Arcadian one 'rich in sheep' and the Boeotian one 'Minyeian', and adding 'Thracian' to Samos: "between Samos and Imbros, "in order to separate it from the Ionian—says that the Thesprotian Ephyra is likewise distinguished by 'from afar' and 'from the river Selleeis'.
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ταῦτα δʼ οὐχ ὁμολογεῖ τοῖς ὑπὸ τοῦ Σκηψίου Δημητρίου λεγομένοις, παρʼ οὗ μεταφέρει τὰ πλεῖστα. ἐκεῖνος γὰρ οὔ φησιν εἶναι Σελλήεντα ἐν Θεσπρωτοῖς ποταμόν, ἀλλʼ ἐν τῇ Ἠλείᾳ παρὰ τὴν ἐκεῖ Ἐφύραν, ὡς προείπομεν.
But these statements do not agree with those made by Demetrius of Skepsis, from whom he borrows most of his material; for Demetrius says there is no river Selleeis among the Thesprotians, but in Eleia, beside the Ephyra there, as we said before.
τοῦτό τε οὖν εἴρηκε σκέψεως δεόμενον καὶ περὶ τῆς Οἰχαλίας ὅτι φησὶν οὐ μιᾶς οὔσης, μίαν εἶναι πόλιν Εὐρύτου Οἰχαλιῆος· δῆλον οὖν ὅτι τὴν Θετταλικήν, ἐφʼ ἧς φησιν
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οἵ τʼ ἔχον Οἰχαλίην, πόλιν Εὐρύτου Οἰχαλιῆος
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τίς οὖν ἔστιν ἐξ ἧς ὁρμηθέντα αἱ Μοῦσαι κατὰ Δώριον
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ἀντόμεναι Θάμυριν τὸν Θρήικα παῦσαν ἀοιδῆς;
This point, therefore, which he has stated, requires examination; as does also his statement about Oechalia, because he says that, although there is not only one, there is only one city of Eurytos the Oechalian—meaning, clearly, the Thessalian one, of which he says: "and they that held Oechalia, the city of Eurytos the Oechalian. "Which, then, is the one from which the Muses, having met Thamyris the Thracian at Dorion, put an end to his song? "meeting Thamyris the Thracian, they put an end to his song.
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εἰ μὲν γὰρ ἡ Θετταλική, οὐκ εὖ πάλιν ὁ Σκήψιος Ἀρκαδικήν τινα λέγων, ἣν νῦν Ἀνδανίαν καλοῦσιν· εἰ δʼ οὗτος εὖ, καὶ ἡ Ἀρκαδικὴ πόλις Εὐρύτου εἴρηται, ὥστʼ οὐ μία μόνον· ἐκεῖνος δὲ μίαν φησί.
"For if it is the Thessalian one, the Skepsian is again wrong in speaking of a certain Arcadian one, which they now call Andania; but if the latter is right, the Arcadian city also has been called the city of Eurytos, so that there is not only one; yet Apollodorus says there is only one.