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At present those are called Cephallenians who inhabit Cepliallenia. But Homer calls all those under the command of Ulysses by this name, among whom are the Acarnanians; for when he says, Ulysses led the Cephallenians, those who possessed Ithaca, and Neritum, waving with woods,Il. ii. 631. (the remarkable mountain in this island; so also, they who came from Dulichium, and the sacred Echinades,Il. ii. 625.Il. ii. 625. for Dulichium itself was one of the Echinades; and again, Buprasium and Elis,Il. ii. 615.Il. ii. 615. when Buprasium is situated in Elis; and so, they who inhabited Euboea, Chalcis, and Eretria,Il. ii. 536.Il. ii. 536. when the latter places are in Euboea; so again, Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians,Il. viii. 173.Il. viii. 173. and these also were Trojans): but after mentioning Neritum, he says, and they who inhabited Crocyleia and rocky Aegilips, Zacynthus, Samos, Epirus, and the country opposite to these islands;Il. ii. 633. he means by Epirus the country opposite to the islands, intending to include together with Leucas the rest of Acarnania, of which he says, twelve herds, and as many flocks of sheep in Epirus,Od. xiv. 100.Od. xiv. 100. because the district of Epirus (the Epirotis) extended anciently perhaps as far as this place, and was designated by the common name Epirus.
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The present Cephallenia he calls Samos, as when he says, in the strait between Ithaca and the hilly Samos,Od. iv. 671Od. iv. 671 he makes a distinction between places of the same name by an epithet, assigning the name not to the city, but to the island. For the island contains four cities, one of which, called Samos, or Same, for it had either appellation, bore the same name as the island. But when the poet says, all the chiefs of the islands, Dulichium, Same, and the woody Zacynthus,Od. i. 246.Od. i. 246. he is evidently enumerating the islands, and calls that Same which he had before called Samos.
