§9.5.20λέγει δὲ καὶ περὶ τούτου καὶ περὶ τῶν Περραιβῶν ἐν τοῖς ἑξῆς ὁ ποιητὴς ὅταν φῇ
Γουνεὺς δʼ ἐκ Κύφου ἦγε δύω καὶ εἴκοσι νῆας.
And the poet speaks both about this man and about the Perrhaebians in the following verses, when he says: 'And Guneus from Kyphos led two and twenty ships.
τῷ δʼ Ἐνιῆνες ἕποντο μενεπτόλεμοί τε Περαιβοί, οἳ περὶ Δωδώνην δυσχείμερον οἰκίʼ ἔθεντο, ἀμφʼ ἱμερτὸν Τιταρήσιον ἔργʼ ἐνέμοντο. λέγει μὲν οὖν τούτους τοὺς τόπους τῶν Περραιβῶν, ἀπὸ μέρους τῆς Ἑστιαιώτιδος ἐπειληφότας· ἦσαν δὲ καὶ ὑπὸ τῷ Πολυποίτῃ ἐκ μέρους Περραιβικαί, τοῖς μέντοι Λαπίθαις προσένειμε διὰ τὸ ἀναμὶξ οἰκεῖν καὶ τὰ μὲν πεδία κατέχειν τοὺς Λαπίθας καὶ τὸ ἐνταῦθα Περραιβικὸν ὑπὸ τούτοις τετάχθαι ὡς ἐπὶ πλέον, τὰ δʼ ὀρεινότερα χωρία πρὸς τῷ Ὀλύμπῳ καὶ τοῖς Τέμπεσι τοὺς Περραιβούς, καθάπερ τὸν Κύφον καὶ τὴν Δωδώνην καὶ τὰ περὶ τὸν Τιταρήσιον, ὃς ἐξ ὄρους Τιταρίου συμφυοῦς τῷ Ὀλύμπῳ ῥέων εἰς τὰ πλησίον τῶν Τεμπῶν χωρία τῆς Περραιβίας αὐτοῦ που τὰς συμβολὰς ποιεῖται πρὸς τὸν Πηνειόν.
And with him followed the Enienes and the Perrhaebians, staunch in battle, who had established their dwellings about wintry Dodona, and tilled the fields about lovely Titaresius.' Now he speaks of these places as belonging to the Perrhaebians, since they occupied a part of Hestiaeotis; and some of the places under Polypoetes were also in part Perrhaebian, but he assigned them to the Lapiths because they lived mixed together, and because the Lapiths held the plains and the Perrhaebian element there was for the most part subordinated to them, while the Perrhaebians held the more mountainous places near Olympus and Tempe, such as Kyphos and Dodona and the regions about the Titaresius, which river, flowing from Mount Titarius, which is continuous with Olympus, into the places of Perrhaebia near Tempe, makes its confluence with the Peneus somewhere there.
τὸ μὲν οὖν τοῦ Πηνειοῦ καθαρόν ἐστιν ὕδωρ, τὸ δὲ τοῦ Τιταρησίου λιπαρὸν ἔκ τινος ὕλης ὥστʼ οὐ συμμίσγεται
ἀλλά τέ μιν καθύπερθεν ἐπιτρέχει ἠύτʼ ἔλαιον. διὰ δὲ τὸ ἀναμὶξ οἰκεῖν Σιμωνίδης Περραιβοὺς καὶ Λαπίθας καλεῖ τοὺς Πελασγιώτας ἅπαντας, τοὺς τὰ ἑῷα κατέχοντας τὰ περὶ Γυρτῶνα καὶ τὰς ἐκβολὰς τοῦ Πηνειοῦ καὶ Ὄσσαν καὶ Πήλιον καὶ τὰ περὶ Δημητριάδα καὶ τὰ ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ, Λάρισαν Κραννῶνα Σκοτοῦσσαν Μόψιον Ἄτρακα, καὶ τὰ περὶ τὴν Νεσσωνίδα λίμνην καὶ Βοιβηίδα·
Now the water of the Peneus is clear, but that of the Titaresius is oily from some substance, so that they do not mix, 'but it runs over it on top like oil.' And because they lived mixed together, Simonides calls 'Perrhaebians and Lapiths' all the Pelasgiotes who occupied the eastern parts around Gyrton and the outlets of the Peneus, and Ossa and Pelion, and the region around Demetrias, and the cities in the plain, namely Larisa, Crannon, Scotussa, Mopsium, Atrax, and the regions around Lake Nessonis and Lake Boebeis.
ὧν ὁ ποιητὴς ὀλίγων μέμνηται διὰ τὸ μὴ οἰκισθῆναί πω τἆλλα ἢ φαύλως οἰκισθῆναι διὰ τοὺς κατακλυσμοὺς ἄλλοτʼ ἄλλους γινομένους· ἐπεὶ οὐδὲ τῆς Νεσσωνίδος μέμνηται λίμνης, ἀλλὰ τῆς Βοιβηίδος μόνον πολὺ ἐλάττονος οὔσης, ταύτης δὲ μόνης μενούσης, ἐκείνης δὲ ὡς εἰκὸς τοτὲ μὲν πληρουμένης ἀτάκτως, τοτὲ δʼ ἐκλειπομένης.
Of these, the poet mentions only a few, because the others had not yet been settled or were only poorly settled because of the floods which occurred at various times; since he does not even mention Lake Nessonis, but only Lake Boebeis, which is much smaller, because the latter alone remained constantly, while the former, as is natural, was at one time filled irregularly, and at another disappeared.
τῆς δὲ Σκοτούσσης ἐμνήσθημεν καὶ ἐν τοῖς περὶ Δωδώνης λόγοις καὶ τοῦ μαντείου τοῦ ἐν Θετταλίᾳ, διότι περὶ τοῦτον ὑπῆρξε τὸν τόπον.
And we mentioned Scotussa both in our account of Dodona and of the oracle in Thessaly, because it was located near this place.
ἔστι δʼ ἐν τῇ Σκοτούσσῃ χωρίον τι Κυνὸς κεφαλαὶ καλούμενον, περὶ ὃ Ῥωμαῖοι μετʼ Αἰτωλῶν καὶ Τίτος Κοΐντιος ἐνίκων μάχῃ μεγάλῃ Φίλιππον τὸν Δημητρίου, Μακεδόνων βασιλέα.
And in Scotussa there is a certain place called Kynos Kephalai, near which the Romans, together with the Aetolians and Titus Quinctius, defeated in a great battle Philip the son of Demetrius, king of the Macedonians.
§9.5.21πέπονθε δέ τι τοιοῦτο καὶ ἡ Μαγνῆτις· κατηριθμημένων γὰρ ἤδη πολλῶν αὐτῆς τόπων οὐδένας τούτων ὠνόμακε Μάγνητας Ὅμηρος, ἀλλʼ ἐκείνους μόνους οὓς τυφλῶς καὶ οὐ γνωρίμως διασαφεῖ
οἳ περὶ Πηνειὸν καὶ Πήλιον εἰνοσίφυλλον ναίεσκον. ἀλλὰ μὴν περὶ τὸν Πηνειὸν καὶ τὸ Πήλιον οἰκοῦσι καὶ οἱ τὴν Γυρτῶνα ἔχοντες, οὓς ἤδη κατέλεξε, καὶ τὸ Ὀρμένιον καὶ ἄλλοι πλείους, καὶ ἔτι ἀπωτέρω τοῦ Πηλίου ὅμως Μάγνητες ἦσαν ἀρξάμενοι ἀπὸ τῶν ὑπʼ Εὐμήλῳ, κατά γε τοὺς ὕστερον ἀνθρώπους.
And Magnetis has suffered some such same thing; for although many of its places have already been enumerated, Homer has named none of these as Magnesians, but only those whom he designates obscurely and not clearly: 'who dwelt about the Peneus and Pelion with shaking foliage.' Yet indeed, those who held Gyrton, whom he has already listed, and Ormenium and several others also lived about the Peneus and Pelion; and nevertheless, those even further away from Pelion were also Magnesians, beginning with those under Eumelus, at least according to later people.
ἐοίκασιν οὖν διὰ τὰς συνεχεῖς μεταστάσεις καὶ ἐξαλλάξεις τῶν πολιτειῶν καὶ ἐπιμίξεις συγχεῖν καὶ τὰ ὀνόματα καὶ τὰ ἔθνη, ὥστε τοῖς νῦν ἔσθʼ ὅτε ἀπορίαν παρέχειν, καθάπερ τοῦτο τὸ πρῶτον μὲν ἐπὶ Κραννῶνος καὶ τῆς Γυρτῶνος γεγένηται.
They seem, therefore, because of the continual migrations and changes of governments and mixtures, to confuse both the names and the tribes, so as sometimes to cause difficulty to moderns, just as this has happened in the first place in the case of Crannon and Gyrton.
τοὺς μὲν γὰρ Γυρτωνίους Φλεγύας πρότερον ἐκάλουν ἀπὸ Φλεγύου τοῦ Ἰξίονος ἀδελφοῦ, τοὺς δὲ Κραννωνίους Ἐφύρους, ὥστε διαπορεῖν, ὅταν φῇ ὁ ποιητής
τὼ μὲν ἄρʼ ἐκ Θρῄκης Ἐφύρους μέτα θωρήσσοντο ἠὲ μετὰ Φλεγύας μεγαλήτορας,
τίνας ποτὲ βούλεται λέγειν·
For they used to call the Gyrtonians Phlegyae, after Phlegyas the brother of Ixion, and the Crannonians Ephyri, so that one is in doubt when the poet says: 'These two then from Thrace armed themselves to go after the Ephyri or after the great-hearted Phlegyae,' which of them he wishes to mean.