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On doubling Lectum one comes next to the most notable cities of the Aeolians, and to the Gulf of Adramyttium, on which the poet obviously places the majority of the Leleges, as also the Cilicians, who were twofold.See 13. 1. 7, 60. Here too is the shore-land of the Mitylenaeans, with certain villagesCoryphantis and Heracleia are named in section 51. belonging to the Mitylenaeans who live on the mainland. The same gulf is also called the Idaean Gulf, for the ridge which extends from Lectum to Mt. Ida lies above the first part of the gulf, where the poet represents the Leleges as first settled.Hom. Il. 10.429
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But I have already discussed these matters.13. 1. 7. I must now add that Homer speaks of a Pedasus, a city of the Leleges, as subject to lord Altes: Of Altes, who is lord over the war-loving Leleges, who hold steep Pedasus on the Satnioeis.Hom. Il. 21.86And the site of the place, now deserted, is still to be seen. Some write, though wrongly, “at the foot of Satnioeis,”i.e., ὑπό for ἐπί in the Homeric passage quoted. as though the city lay at the foot of a mountain called Satnioeis; but there is no mountain here called Satinoeis, but only a river of that name, on which the city is situated; but the city is now deserted. The poet names the river, for, according to him, he wounded Satnius with a thrust of his spear, even the son of Oenops, whom a peerless Naiad nymph bore unto Oenops, as he tended his herds by the banks of the Satnioeis;Hom. Il. 14.443and again: And he dwelt by the banks of the fair-flowing Satnioeis in steep Pedasus.Hom. Il. 6.34And in later times it was called Satnioeis, though some called it Saphnioeis. It is only a large winter torrent, but the naming of it by the poet has made it worthy of mention. These places are continuous with Dardania and Scepsia, and are, as it were, a second Dardania, but it is lower-lying.
