“from Heleon;”
but this is a Tanagrian town; and the words
“Then far away I fled through Hellas and came to Phthia,”[524]
would make this passage absurd.
Hypereia is a spring in the middle of the city of the Pheræi [subject to Eumelus]. It would therefore be absurd [to assign it to Eurypylus].
Titanus[525] had its name from the accident of its colour, for the soil of the country near Arne and [Aphe]tæ is white, and Asterium is not far from these places.
19. Continuous with this portion of Thessaly are the people subject to Polypœtes.
“They who possessed Argissa; those who inhabited Gyrtone,[526]
Orthe, Elone, and the white city Oloosson.”[527]
This country was formerly inhabited by Perrhæbi, who possessed the part towards the sea and the Peneius, as far as[528] its mouth and the city Gyrton, belonging to the district Perrhæbis. Afterwards the Lapithæ, Ixion and his son Peirithous, having reduced the Perrhæbi,[529] got possession of these places. Peirithous took possession also of Pelion, having expelled by force the Centaurs, a savage tribe, who inhabited it. These