[276] Od. xi. 122.
[277] Apollodorus, like Scymnus, had probably found the Lydians mentioned in the list of Ephorus, as also the Cappadocians.
[278] Kramer says that he is unable to decide how this corrupt passage should be restored. The translation follows the conjectures of Coray.
[279] Il. ii. 862.
[280] Il. iii. 187.
[281] Isnik.
[282] Euphorion acquired celebrity as a voluminous writer. Vossius, i. 16, gives a catalogue of his works. According to Suidas, he was born in Chalcis, in Negropont, at the time Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, was defeated by the Romans. He acquired a considerable fortune by his writings and by his connexion with persons of eminent rank. He was invited to the court of Antiochus the Great, king of Syria, who intrusted him with the care of his library. According to Sallust, (Life of Tiberius,) he was one of the poets whom Tiberius took as his model in writing Greek verse. Fecit et Græca poemata, imitatus Euphorionem, et Rhianum et Parthenium.
[283] The Clides, off Cape Andrea.
[284] Cape Arnauti.
[285] Dschehan-Tschai.