2. Rhodes.
3. Syme.
4. Cos and other islands. Carpathus is included, which lay between Crete and Rhodes; being apparently in political union with Cos and the Calydnæ, and contributing to the same contingent, it could not but stand with them. Strabo observes that this principle of political division, according to what he terms δυνάστειαι[483], has been adopted by the Poet in his account of the Thessalian contingents.
By reference to the rude maps annexed, which mark the several contingents by figures, the nature of this contrivance will be clearly seen.
The order for Thessaly.
It is more difficult to trace Homer’s method of proceeding with respect to Thessaly.
This country furnishes nine contingents, which may best be described by the names of their leaders. There is no difficulty as to the first four, except that some of the boundaries are indeterminate. They form, like the last or insular group, an incomplete circle[484]. The leaders are;
I. Achilles (681-94).
II. Protesilaus (695-710).
III. Eumelus (711-15).