[240] El-Baretun. A description of this place will be found in the 17th book.
[241] At this port it was that Agesilaus terminated his glorious career.
[242] Iliad xiii. 1. Strabo means that Homer, after having spoken of the Trojans in general, mentions Hector in particular.
[243] Iliad ii. 641. Having mentioned the sons of Œneus collectively, he afterwards distinguishes one of them by name.
[244] Iliad viii. 47. Gargarus was one of the highest peaks of Ida.
[245] Iliad ii. 536. Chalcis and Eretria were two cities of Eubœa.
[246] We have here taken advantage of Casaubon’s suggestion to read ἡ πάνορμος instead of ἢ Πάνορμος, the Greek name for Palermo in Sicily, which was not founded in the time of Sappho.
[247] Odyssey iv. 83.
[248] Paris.
[249] Where were her variously embroidered robes, the works of Sidonian females, which godlike Alexander himself had brought from Sidon, sailing over the broad ocean, in that voyage in which he carried off Helen, sprung from a noble sire. Iliad vi. 289.