Book 9
4.5
It is not worth while to speak of any of the other cities. Of those mentioned by Homer, Calliarus is no longer inhabited, it is now a well-cultivated plain. Bessa, a sort of plain, does not now exist. It has its name from an accidental quality, for it abounds with woods. χώοͅαν ἔχουσι σκαρφιεῖς, etc. It ought to be written with a double s, for it has its name from Bessa, a wooded valley, like Napē,βῆσσαι and νάπη, wooded hollows. in the plain of Methymna,In the island of Lesbos. which Hellanicus, through ignorance of the local circumstances, improperly calls Lapē; but the demus in Attica, from which the burghers are called Besaeenses, is written with a single s.
4.6
Tarphe is situated upon a height, at the distance of 20 stadia from [Thronium]. It has a territory, productive and well wooded; for this place also has its name from its being thickly wooded. It is now called Pharygae. A temple of Juno Pharygaea is there, called so from the Argive Juno at Pharygae; and the inhabitants assert that they are of Argive origin.
4.7
Homer does not mention, at least not in express words the Locri Hesperii, but only seems to distinguish them from the people of whom we have spoken; Locri, who dwell beyond the sacred Euboea;Il. ii. 535.Il. ii. 535. as if there were other Locri. They occupied the cities AmphissaSalona, or Lampeni. and Naupactus.Lepanto. The latter still subsists near Antirrhium.Castel de Roumeli. It has its name from the ships that were built there, either because the Heraclidae constructed their fleet at this place, or because the Locri, as Ephorus states, had built vessels there long before that time. At present it belongs to the Aetolians, by a decree of Philip.
