[152] Which I very little regard, nor do I care for them whether they fly to the right, towards the morn and the sun, or to the left, towards the darkening west. Iliad xii. 239.
[153] O my friends, since we know not where is the west, nor where the morning, nor where the sun. Odyssey x. 190.
[154] The north and west winds, which both blow from Thrace. Iliad ix. 5.
[155] Now the Bay of Saros.
[156] These two provinces are comprised in the modern division of Roumelia. A portion of Macedonia still maintains its ancient name Makidunia.
[157] The modern names of these places are Thaso, Stalimene, Imbro, and Samothraki.
[158] Strabo, as well as Casaubon in his notes on this passage, seems to have made an imperfect defence of Homer. The difficulty experienced, as well by them as Eratosthenes, arose from their overlooking the fact that Macedonia was a part of Thrace in Homer’s time, and that the name of Macedon did not exist.
[159] These rocks were situated between the city of Megara and the isthmus of Corinth.
[160] And the south-east and the south rushed together, and the hard-blowing west, and the cold-producing north. Odyssey v. 295.
[161] The western part of Thrace, afterwards named Macedonia; having Pæonia on the north, and Thessaly on the south.