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When, after mentioning Phoenicia, he talks of Sidon, its metropolis, he merely employs a common form of expression, for example, He urged the Trojans and Hector to the ships.Iliad xiii. 1.Strabo means that Homer, after having spoken of the Trojans in general, mentions Hector in particular.Iliad xiii. 1. For the sons of magnanimous Oeneus were no more, nor was he himself surviving; moreover, fair-haired Meleager was dead.Iliad ii. 641. Having mentioned the sons of Aeneus collectively, he afterwards distinguishes one of them by name. He came to Ida—and to Gargarus.Iliad viii. 47.Gargarus was one of the highest peaks of Ida.Iliad viii. 47. He possessed Euboea, Chalcis, and Eretria.Iliad ii. 536. Chalcis and Eretria were two cities of Euboea.Iliad ii. 536. Sappho likewise [says], Whether Cyprus, or the spacious-harboured Paphos.We have here taken advantage of Casaubon’s suggestion to read ἡ πάνορμος instead of ἢ πάνορμος, the Greek name for Palermo in Sicily, which was not founded in the time of Sappho.
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But he had some other cause besides this for mentioning Sidon immediately after having spoken of the Phoenicians: for had he merely desired to recount the nations in order, it would have been quite sufficient to say, Having wandered to Cyprus, Phoenice, and the Egyptians, I came to the Ethiopians.Odyssey iv. 83.
