he is evidently enumerating the islands, and calls that Same which he had before called Samos.
But Apollodorus at one time says that the ambiguity is removed by the epithet, which the poet uses, when he says,
“and hilly Samos,”
meaning the island; and at another time he pretends that we ought to write
“Dulichium, and Samos,”
and not
“Same,”
and evidently supposes that the city is called by either name, Samos or Samé, but the island by that of Samos only. That the city is called Samé is evident from the enumeration of the suitors from each city, where the poet says,
“there are four and twenty from Samé,”[633]
and from what is said about Ctimene,