Book 13
2.5
Near these islands is Pordoselene, which contains a city of the same name, and in front of this city is another islandThe name appears to be wanting. larger than this, and a city of the same name, uninhabited, in which there is a temple of Apollo.
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Some persons, in order to avoid the indecorum couched in these names,Derived from πορδὴ and πἐοͅδω. say that we ought to read in that place Poroselene, and to call Aspordenum, the rocky and barren mountain near Pergamum, Asporenum, and the temple there of the Mother of the gods, the temple of the Asporene Mother of the gods; what then are we to say to the names Pordalis, Saperdes, Perdiccas, and to this word in the verse of Simonides, with clothes dripping with wet, (ποοͅσάκοισιν for διαβόχοις,) and in the old comedy somewhere, the country is ποοͅδακόν, for λιμνάζον, or ‘ marshy.’
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Lesbos is at the same distance, rather less than 500 stadia, from Tenedos, Lemnos, and Chios.
CHAPTER III.
3.1
SINCE there subsisted so great an affinity among the Leleges and Cilicians with the Trojans, the reason is asked, why these people are not included in Homer’s Catalogue. Perhaps it is that, on account of the loss of their leaders and the devastation of the cities, the few Cilicians that were left placed themselves under the command of Hector. For Eetion and his sons are said to have been killed before the Catalogue is mentioned; The hero Achilles, says Andromache, killed my father, and destroyed Thebe, with its lofty gates, the city of the Cilicians.— I had seven brothers in the palace; all of them went in one day to Hades, for they were all slain by the swift-footed divine Achilles.Il. vi. 414, 421.
