Book 9
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Continuous with this portion of Thessaly are the people subject to Polypoetes. They who possessed Argissa; those who inhabited Gyrtone,Tcheritchiano. Orthe, Elone, and the white city Oloosson.Il. ii. 738. Il. ii. 738 This country was formerly inhabited by Perrhoebi, who possessed the part towards the sea and the Peneius, as far asMeineke suggests the reading μετασύ, between, instead of μέχρι, as far as. its mouth and the city Gyrton, belonging to the district Perrhaebis. Afterwards the Lapithae, Ixion and his son Peirithous, having reduced the Perrhaebi,The words after Perrhoebi, εἰς τὴν ἐν μεσογαίἁ ποταμίαν, into the country in the interior lying along the river, are omitted, as suggested by Meineke. got possession of these places. Peirithous took possession also of Pelion, having expelled by force the Centaurs, a savage tribe, who inhabited it. These he drove from Pelion to the neighbourhood of the Aethices,Il. ii. 744.Il. ii. 744. but he delivered up the plains to the Lapithae. The Perrhaebi kept possession of some of these parts, those, namely, towards Olympus, and in some places they lived intermixed altogether with the Lapithae.
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Argissa, the present Argura, is situated upon the banks of the Peneius. Atrax lies above it at the distance of 40 stadia, close to the river. The intermediate country along the side of the river was occupied by Perrhaebi.
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Some call Orthe the citadel of the Phalannaei. Phalanna is a Perrhaebic city on the Peneius, near Tempe.
