He distinguishes the identity of name by epithets; he calls Thessaly, Pelasgic Argos;
“all who dwelt in Pelasgic Argos;”[176]
and the Peloponnesus, the Achæan Argos;
“if we should return to Achæan Argos;”[177]
“was he not at Achæan Argos?”[178]
intimating in these lines that the Peloponnesians were called peculiarly Achæans according to another designation.
He calls also the Peloponnesus, Argos Jasum;
“if all the Achæans throughout Argos Jasum should see you,”[179]
meaning Penelope, she then would have a greater number of suitors; for it is not probable that he means those from the whole of Greece, but those from the neighbourhood of Ithaca. He applies also to Argos terms common to other places,