§9.5.18ἑξῆς δὲ λέγει τὴν ὑπʼ Εὐρυπύλῳ
οἳ δʼ ἔχον Ὀρμένιον οἵ τε κρήνην Ὑπέρειαν, οἵ τʼ ἔχον Ἀστέριον Τιτάνοιό τε λευκὰ κάρηνα. τὸ μὲν οὖν Ὀρμένιον νῦν Ὀρμίνιον καλεῖται, ἔστι δʼ ὑπὸ τῷ Πηλίῳ κώμη κατὰ τὸν Παγασιτικὸν κόλπον τῶν συνῳκισμένων εἰς τὴν Δημητριάδα πόλεων, ὡς εἴρηται.
Next, he mentions the region under Eurypylus: "And those who held Ormenium and the Hyperian spring, and those who held Asterium and the white summits of Titanus." Now Ormenium is now called Orminium, and it is a village under Mount Pelion near the Pagasetic Gulf, one of the cities that were settled together into Demetrias, as has been said.
ἀνάγκη δὲ καὶ τὴν Βοιβηίδα λίμνην εἶναι πλησίον, ἐπειδὴ καὶ ἡ Βοίβη τῶν περιοικίδων ἦν τῆς Δημητριάδος καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ Ὀρμένιον.
And it is necessary that Lake Boebeis is also near, since Boebe itself, as well as Ormenium, was among the neighboring places of Demetrias.
τὸ μὲν οὖν Ὀρμένιον ἀπέχει τῆς Δημητριάδος πεζῇ σταδίους ἑπτὰ καὶ εἴκοσιν, ὁ δὲ τῆς Ἰωλκοῦ τόπος ἐν ὁδῷ κείμενος τῆς μὲν Δημητριάδος ἑπτὰ σταδίους διέστηκε, τοῦ δʼ Ὀρμενίου τοὺς λοιποὺς σταδίους εἴκοσι.
Ormenium indeed is twenty-seven stadia distant from Demetrias by land, and the site of Iolcus, lying on the way, is seven stadia distant from Demetrias, and the remaining twenty stadia from Ormenium.
φησὶ δʼ ὁ Σκήψιος ἐκ τοῦ Ὀρμενίου τὸν Φοίνικα εἶναι, καὶ φεύγειν αὐτὸν ἐνθένδε παρὰ τοῦ
πατρὸς Ἀμύντορος Ὀρμενίδαο
εἰς τὴν Φθίαν
ἐς Πηλῆα ἄνακτα. ἐκτίσθαι γὰρ ὑπὸ Ὀρμένου τὸ χωρίον τοῦτο τοῦ Κερκάφου τοῦ Αἰόλου· παῖδας δὲ τοῦ Ὀρμένου γενέσθαι τόν τε Ἀμύντορα καὶ Εὐαίμονα, ὧν τοῦ μὲν εἶναι Φοίνικα τοῦ δʼ Εὐρύπυλον· φυλαχθῆναι δὲ τῷ Εὐρυπύλῳ τὴν διαδοχὴν κοινήν, ἅτε ἂν ἀπελθόντος τοῦ Φοίνικος ἐκ τῆς οἰκείας· καὶ δὴ καὶ γράφει οὕτως
οἷον ὅτε πρῶτον λίπον Ὀρμένιον πολύμηλον,
ἀντὶ τοῦ
λίπον Ἑλλάδα καλλιγύναικα. Κράτης δὲ Φωκέα ποιεῖ τὸν Φοίνικα, τεκμαιρόμενος ἐκ τοῦ κράνους τοῦ Μέγητος ᾧ ἐχρήσατο ὁ Ὀδυσσεὺς κατὰ τὴν νυκτεγερσίαν, περὶ οὗ φησιν ὁ ποιητὴς ὅτι
ἐξ Ἐλεῶνος Ἀμύντορος Ὀρμενίδαο ἐξέλετʼ Αὐτόλυκος, πυκινὸν δόμον ἀντιτορήσας. τόν τε γὰρ Ἐλεῶνα ἐν τῷ Παρνασσῷ πολίχνιον εἶναι, τόν τε Ὀρμενίδην Ἀμύντορα οὐκ ἄλλον τινὰ λέγεσθαι ἢ τὸν τοῦ Φοίνικος πατέρα, καὶ τὸν Αὐτόλυκον οἰκοῦντα ἐν τῷ Παρνασσῷ τοιχωρυχεῖν τὰ τῶν γειτόνων, ὅπερ κοινόν ἐστι τοιχωρύχου παντός, οὐ τὰ τῶν πόρρωθεν.
The Scepsian says that Phoenix was from Ormenium, and that he fled from there from his "father Amyntor, son of Ormenus," to Phthia, "to lord Peleus." For this place was founded by Ormenus, the son of Cercaphus, the son of Aeolus; and the sons of Ormenus were Amyntor and Evaemon, of whom Phoenix was the son of the former and Eurypylus of the latter; and the common succession was preserved for Eurypylus, inasmuch as Phoenix had departed from his home; and indeed he writes thus: "As when first I left Ormenium rich in sheep," instead of: "I left Hellas of fair women." But Crates makes Phoenix a Phocian, conjecturing from the helmet of Meges which Odysseus used during the night-awakening, concerning which the poet says that: "Autolycus took it from Eleon, from Amyntor, son of Ormenus, having broken into his stout house." For he says that Eleon is a small town on Parnassus, and that Amyntor, son of Ormenus, is mentioned as no other than the father of Phoenix, and that Autolycus, living on Parnassus, broke into the houses of his neighbors, which is common to every house-breaker, and not those of people far away.
ὁ δὲ Σκήψιός φησι μήτε Ἐλεῶνα μηδένα τόπον τοῦ Παρνασσοῦ δείκνυσθαι, ἀλλὰ Νεῶνα, καὶ ταύτην οἰκισθεῖσαν μετὰ τὰ Τρωικά, μήτʼ ἐκ γειτόνων τὰς τοιχωρυχίας γίνεσθαι μόνον.
But the Scepsian says that no place named Eleon is pointed out on Parnassus, but Neon, and that this was settled after the Trojan War, and that house-breakings do not happen only from among neighbors.
καὶ ἄλλα δʼ ἐστὶν ἃ λέγοι τις ἄν, ἀλλʼ οὖν ὀκνῶ διατρίβειν ἐπὶ πλέον.
There are also other things that one might say, but indeed I hesitate to spend more time.
ἄλλοι δὲ γράφουσιν ἐξ Ἑλεῶνος· Ταναγρικὴ δέ ἐστιν αὕτη· καὶ μᾶλλον ἐλέγχοι ἀτόπως ἂν λεγόμενον τό
φεῦγον ἔπειτʼ ἀπάνευθε διʼ Ἑλλάδος, Φθίην δʼ ἐξικόμην. ἡ δʼ Ὑπέρεια κρήνη ἐν μέσῃ ἐστὶ τῇ Φεραίων πόλει Εὐμήλου οὔσῃ· ἄτοπον τοίνυν λῳ.
But others write "from Heleon"; and this is Tanagraean territory; and it would prove even more absurdly spoken the passage: "Fleeing then far away through Hellas, I came to Phthia." And the Hyperian spring is in the middle of the city of the Pheraeans, which belonged to Eumelus; therefore [to place it under Eurypylus] is absurd...
Τίτανος δʼ ἀπὸ τοῦ συμβεβηκότος ὠνομάσθη· λευκόγεων γάρ ἐστι τὸ χωρίον Ἄρνης πλησίον καὶ τῶν· καὶ τὸ Ἀστέριον δʼ οὐκ ἄπωθεν τούτων ἐστί.
And Titanus was named from its circumstance; for the place is of white soil, near Arne and [...]; and Asterium is not far from these.