§9.5.17ὁ δʼ οὖν ποιητὴς μέχρι δεῦρο προελθὼν τῆς Μαγνητικῆς παραλίας ἐπάνεισιν ἐπὶ τὴν ἄνω Θετταλίαν· καὶ γὰρ τὰ παρατείνοντα τῇ Φ, ἀρξάμενος ἀπὸ τῆς Δολοπίας καὶ τῆς Πίνδου, κάτω Θετταλίας διέξεισιν
οἳ δʼ εἶχον Τρίκκην καὶ Ἰθώμην κλωμακόεσσαν. ταῦτα τὰ χωρία ἔστι μὲν τῆς Ἱστιαιώτιδος, ἐκαλεῖτο δʼ, ὥς φασι, πρότερον Δωρίς· κατασχόντων δὲ τῶν Περραιβῶν αὐτήν, οἳ καὶ τῆς Εὐβοίας τὴν Ἱστιαιῶτιν κατεστρέψαντο καὶ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους εἰς τὴν ἤπειρον ἀνέσπασαν, διὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν ἐποικησάντων Ἱστιαίων τὴν χώραν ἀπʼ ἐκείνων οὕτως ἐκάλεσαν.
The poet, then, having proceeded thus far along the Magnesian coastline, returns to Upper Thessaly; for he goes through the regions of Lower Thessaly that extend parallel to Ph[...], beginning from Dolopia and Pindus: "And those who held Tricca and Ithome of the crags." These places belong to Histiaeotis, but it was formerly called, as they say, Doris; but when the Perrhaebians took possession of it—who also conquered Histiaeotis in Euboea and transplanted the inhabitants to the mainland—they called the country after them because of the multitude of the Histiaeans who had settled there.
καλοῦσι δὲ καὶ τὴν Δολοπίαν τὴν ἄνω Θετταλίαν, ἐπʼ εὐθείας οὖσα Μακεδονίᾳ, καθάπερ καὶ τὴν κάτω τῇ κάτω.
And they also call Dolopia Upper Thessaly, as it is in a straight line with Macedonia, just as Lower Thessaly is with Lower Macedonia.
ἔστι δʼ ἡ μὲν Τρίκκη, ὅπου τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ Ἀσκληπιοῦ τὸ ἀρχαιότατον καὶ ἐπιφανέστατον, ὅμορος τοῖς τε Δόλοψιν καὶ τοῖς περὶ τὴν Πίνδον τόποις.
Tricca, where is the oldest and most famous temple of Asclepius, is contiguous both to the Dolopians and to the places about Pindus.
τὴν δʼ Ἰθώμην ὁμωνύμως τῇ Μεσσηνιακῇ λεγομένην οὔ φασι δεῖν οὕτως ἐκφέρειν, ἀλλὰ τὴν πρώτην συλλαβὴν ἀφαιρεῖν· οὕτω γὰρ καλεῖσθαι πρότερον, νῦν δὲ Ἰθώμη μετωνομάσθαι, χωρίον ἐρυμνὸν καὶ τῷ ὄντι κλωμακόεν, ἱδρυμένον μεταξὺ τεττάρων φρουρίων ὥσπερ ἐν τετραπλεύρῳ κειμένων, Τρίκκης τε καὶ Μητροπόλεως καὶ Πελινναίου καὶ Γόμφων.
As for Ithome, which is called homonymously with the Messenian town, they say that one should not pronounce it thus, but should remove the first syllable; for they say it was formerly called Thome, but has now been renamed Ithome, a stronghold and truly "of the crags," situated between four fortresses lying as if in a quadrangle, namely, Tricca, Metropolis, Pelinnaeum, and Gomphi.
τῆς δὲ δὴ Μητροπολιτῶν ἐστι χώρας ἡ Ἰθώμη.
And Ithome indeed belongs to the territory of the Metropolitans.
ἡ δὲ Μητρόπολις πρότερον μὲν ἐκ τριῶν συνῴκιστο πολιχνίων ἀσήμων, ὕστερον δὲ καὶ πλείους προσελήφθησαν, ὧν ἦν καὶ ἡ Ἰθώμη.
Metropolis was formerly settled by synoecism from three obscure small towns, but later more were added, among which was also Ithome.
Καλλίμαχος μὲν οὖν φησιν ἐν τοῖς ἰάμβοις τὰς Ἀφροδίτας (ἡ θεὸς γὰρ οὐ μία) τὴν Καστνιῆτιν ὑπερβάλλεσθαι πάσας τῷ φρονεῖν, ὅτι μόνη παραδέχεται τὴν τῶν ὑῶν θυσίαν.
Callimachus, then, says in his Iambics that of all the Aphrodites (for the goddess is not one), the Castnietis excels all in wisdom, because she alone accepts the sacrifice of pigs.
καὶ μὴν πολυίστωρ, εἴ τις ἄλλος, καὶ πάντα τὸν βίον, ὡς αὐτὸς εἴρηκεν, ὁ ταῦτα μυθεῖσθαι βουλόμενος.
And indeed, he was polyhistoric if anyone ever was, and as he himself said, he who wishes to write of these myths spends his whole life on it.
οἱ δʼ ὕστερον ἤλεγξαν οὐ μίαν Ἀφροδίτην μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ πλείους ἀποδεδεγμένας τὸ ἔθος τοῦτο, ὧν εἶναι καὶ τὴν ἐν τῇ Μητροπόλει· ταύτῃ δὲ μίαν τῶν συνοικισθεισῶν εἰς αὐτὴν πόλεων παραδοῦναι τὸ ἔθος Ὀνθύριον.
But later writers proved that not only one Aphrodite but several accepted this custom, among whom was also the one in Metropolis; and that Onthurium, one of the cities settled into it, handed down this custom to her.
ἔστι δὲ καὶ Φαρκαδὼν ἐν τῇ Ἱστιαιώτιδι, καὶ ῥεῖ διʼ αὐτῶν ὁ Πηνειὸς καὶ ὁ Κουράλιος· ὧν ὁ Κουράλιος ῥυεὶς παρὰ τὸ τῆς Ἰτωνίας Ἀθηνᾶς ἱερὸν εἰς τὸν Πηνειὸν ἐξίησιν, αὐτὸς δʼ ὁ Πηνειὸς ἄρχεται μὲν ἐκ Πίνδου, καθάπερ εἴρηται, ἐν ἀριστερᾷ δʼ ἀφεὶς Τρίκκην τε καὶ Πελινναῖον καὶ Φαρκαδόνα φέρεται παρά τε Ἄτρακα καὶ Λάρισαν, καὶ τοὺς ἐν τῇ Θετταλιώτιδι δεξάμενος ποταμοὺς πρόεισι διὰ τῶν Τεμπῶν ἐπὶ τὰς ἐκβολάς.
There is also Pharcadon in Histiaeotis, and through them flow the Peneus and the Curalius; of which the Curalius, flowing past the temple of Itonian Athena, empties into the Peneus. The Peneus itself begins from Pindus, as has been said, and leaving Tricca, Pelinnaeum, and Pharcadon on its left, is carried past Atrax and Larissa, and receiving the rivers in Thessaliotis, goes forward through Tempe to its outlets.
τὴν δʼ Οἰχαλίαν πόλιν Εὐρύτου λεγομένην ἔν τε τοῖς τόποις τούτοις ἱστοροῦσι καὶ ἐν Εὐβοίᾳ καὶ ἐν Ἀρκαδίᾳ, καὶ μετονομάζουσιν ἄλλως, ὃ καὶ ἐν τοῖς Πελοποννησιακοῖς εἴρηται.
As for the city Oechalia, called the city of Eurytus, they record it in these places, and in Euboea, and in Arcadia, and they rename it otherwise, as has also been said in the Peloponnesian affairs.
περὶ δὲ τούτων ζητοῦσι καὶ μάλιστα τίς ἦν ἡ ὑπὸ Ἡρακλέους ἁλοῦσα, καὶ περὶ τίνος συνέγραψεν ὁ ποιήσας τὴν Οἰχαλίας ἅλωσιν.
Concerning these they inquire, and especially which was the one captured by Heracles, and about which one the author of the 'Capture of Oechalia' wrote.
ταῦτα μὲν δὴ τὰ χωρία τοῖς Ἀσκληπιάδαις ὑπέταξεν.
These places, then, the poet subjected to the Asclepiadae.