and these also were Trojans): but after mentioning Neritum, he says,
“and they who inhabited Crocyleia and rocky Ægilips, Zacynthus, Samos, Epirus, and the country opposite to these islands;”[629]
he means by Epirus the country opposite to the islands, intending to include together with Leucas the rest of Acarnania, of which he says,
“twelve herds, and as many flocks of sheep in Epirus,”[630]
because the district of Epirus (the Epirotis) extended anciently perhaps as far as this place, and was designated by the common name Epirus.
The present Cephallenia he calls Samos, as when he says,
“in the strait between Ithaca and the hilly Samos,”[631]
he makes a distinction between places of the same name by an epithet, assigning the name not to the city, but to the island. For the island contains four cities, one of which, called Samos, or Same, for it had either appellation, bore the same name as the island. But when the poet says,
“all the chiefs of the islands, Dulichium, Same, and the woody Zacynthus,”[632]