5. Πελασγικὸν Ἄργος is Thessaly, from Macedonia to Œta.
6. Ἀχαιïκὸν Ἄργος means the Pelopid dominions of the Troic time, or in general words, Eastern Peloponnesus.
7. Ἴασον Ἄργος means Western Peloponnesus.
8. The word Ἕλλας means
(1) probably a portion of the dominions of Achilles, as in Il. ii. 683, ix. 395;
(2) certainly the country outside them to the southward of Phthia, down to the Isthmus of Corinth, and probably reaching northward through the rest of Thessaly: Il. ix. 447 and elsewhere;
(3) it is possible that Ἕλλας may mean all Greece in Od. i. 344, and xv. 80; but more likely that the sense is the same as in (2).
9. The phrase Ἀπίη γαίη most probably, though not certainly, means the entire Peloponnesus.
What then was this name Ἄργος, which Homer uses so much more frequently, and with so much more elasticity and diversity of sense, than any other territorial name whatever?
In the first place let us remark how rarely it is used for a city; in the strict sense of the word, we cannot be said to find it more than once. Its proper meaning is evidently a tract of country.