[2892] Kramer quotes the following passage from Eustathius: “In the passage ἐπικίδναται αἴῃ, or αἶαν, (for there are two readings,) some have understood αἶαv not to mean the earth, but a spring, as is evident from the words of the geographer, where he says that the Amydon of Homer was afterwards called Abydos, but was razed. For there is a spring of clearest water near Amydon, called Æa, running into the Axius, which is itself turbid, in consequence of the numerous rivers which flow into it. There is, therefore, he says, an error in the quotation, Ἀξίου κάλλιστον ὕδωρ ἐπικίδναται αἴῃ, as it is clearly not the Axius which diffuses its water over the spring, but the contrary. The geographer rather intemperately finds fault with the supposition of αἶαν meaning the earth, and seems anxious to reject altogether this reading in the Homeric poem.”
[2893] Buræus.
[2894] Gulf of Salonica.
[2895] Cape Pailuri.
[2896] The ruins of Potidæa, or Cassandria, are near Pinako.
[2897] Karafaja.
[2898] Monte Santo.
[2899] Gulf of Zeitun.
[2900] G. of Volo.
[2901] G. of Salonica.