Book 7
frag.15a
The Peneius rises, according to the Geographer, in that part of the Pindus Mountain about which the Perrhaebians live. . . . And Strabo also makes the following statements concerning the Peneius: The Peneius rises in the Pindus; and leaving Tricca on the left it flows around Atrax and Larissa, and after receiving the rivers in Thessaly passes on through Tempe. And he says that the Peneius flows through the center of Thessaly, receiving many rivers, and that in its course it keeps Olympus on the left and Ossa on the right. And at its outlets, on the right, is a Magnetan city, Gyrton, in which Peirithoüs and Ixion reigned; and not far from Gyrton is a city Crannon, whose citizens were called by a different name, “Ephyri,” just’ as the citizens of Gyrton were called “Phlegyae.”
frag.16
Below the foot-hills of Olympus, along the Peneius River, lies Gyrton, the Perrhaebian and Magnetan city, in which Peirithoüs and Ixion ruled; and Crannon is at a distance of one hundred stadia from Gyrton, and writers say that when the poet says, “Verily these twain from Thrace,”Hom. Il. 13.301 he means by “Ephyri” the Crannonians and by “Phlegyae” the Gyrtonians.Cp. Frag. 14.
frag.16a
The city of Crannon is at a distance of one hundred stadia from Gyrton, according to Strabo.
frag.16b
Homolium, a city of Macedonia and Magnesia. Strabo in his Seventh Book.
frag.16c
I have said in my description of Macedonia that Homolium is close to Ossa and is where the Peneius, flowing through Tempe, begins to discharge its waters.See 9. 5. 22, from which this Fragment is taken.
frag.16d
There were several different Ephyras, if indeed the Geographer counts as many as nine.Our text of Strabo mentions only seven. Benseler’s Lexicon names nine and Pauly-Wissowa eight.
frag.16e
He (the Geographer) speaks of a city Gyrton, a Magnetan city near the outlets of the Peneius.
