The Geography of Strabo, Volume 2 (of 3) / Literally Translated, with Notes

Transcriber's note:
In this book many city names are spelled in different ways. When the correct spelling is obvious these have been corrected for the sake of consistency. See the list of modern names at the end of volume III.
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
LITERALLY TRANSLATED, WITH NOTES. THE FIRST SIX BOOKS BY H. C. HAMILTON, ESQ. THE REMAINDER BY W. FALCONER, M.A., LATE FELLOW OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. MDCCCLVI. JOHN CHILDS AND SON, BUNGAY.

SUMMARY.
The remaining parts of Macedonia are considered, and the whole of Greece; on this the author dwells some time on account of the great reputation of the country. He corrects minutely, and clears up, the confused and vague accounts respecting the cities contained therein, given by poets and historians, and especially in the Catalogue and in many other parts of the Poem.
It is easy to form an opinion of the other writers, but the poems of Homer require critical consideration, both because he speaks as a poet, and because he describes things not as they exist at present, but as they existed anciently, and the greater part of which have been rendered obscure by time.
We must however undertake this inquiry as far as we are able, beginning from the point where our description ended.
It ended with an account of the Epirotic and Illyrian nations on the west and north, and of Macedonia as far as Byzantium on the east.
Such then is the number of the Grecian nations, and thus in general are they distinguished from each other.
I shall resume my account of them, and describe each nation in their proper order.