Book 8
6.15
Between Troezen and Epidaurus, there was a fortress Methana,Methana is the modern name. and a peninsula of the same name. In some copies of Thucydides Methone is the common reading,Thucyd. b. ii. c. 34. Methone is the reading of all manuscripts and editions. a place of the same name with the Macedonian city, at the siege of which Philip lost an eye. Hence Demetrius of Scepsis is of opinion, that some persons were led into error by the name, and supposed that it was Methone near Troezen. It was against this town, it is said, that the persons sent by Agamemnon to levy sailors, uttered the imprecation, that they might never cease to build walls, but it was not these people; but the Macedonians, according to Theopompus, who refused the levy of men; besides, it is not probable that those, who were in the neighbourhood of Agamemnon, would disobey his orders.
6.16
Aegina is a place in the territory of Epidaurus. There is in front of this continent, an island, of which the poet means to speak in the lines before cited. Wherefore some write, and the island Aegina, instead of and they who occupied Aegina, making a distinction between the places of the same name.
