Kitap 13
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Those also under the command of Mynes had lost their leaders, and their city; He slew Mynes, and Epistrophus, And destroyed the city of the divine Mynes.Il. ii. 692; xix. 296.Il. ii. 692; xix. 296. He describes the Leleges as present at the battles; when he says, on the sea-coast are Carians, and Paeonians with curved bows, Leleges, and Caucones.II. x. 428. And in another place, he killed Satnius with a spear—the son of Enops, whom a beautiful nymph Neis bore to Enops, when he was tending herds near the banks of Satnioeis,Il. xiv. 443. for they had not been so completely annihilated as to prevent their forming a body of people of themselves, since their king still survived, Altes, king of the war-loving Leleges,Il. xxi. 86.Il. xxi. 86. nor was the city entirely razed, for he adds, who commanded the lofty city Pedasus on the Satnioeis.Il. xxi. 87.Il. xxi. 87. He has passed them over in the Catalogue, not considering the body of people large enough to have a place in it; or he comprised them among the people under the command of Hector, as being allied to one another. For Lycaon, the brother of Hector, says, my mother Laothoë, daughter of the old Altes, brought me into the world to live but a short time; of Altes, king of the war-loving Leleges.Il. xxi. 84.
3.1
Such is the reasoning, from probability, which this subject admits.
3.2
We reason from probability when we endeavour to determine by the words of the poet the exact bounds of the territory of the Cilicians, Pelasgi, and of the people situated between them, namely, the Ceteii, who were under the command of Eurypylus.
3.2
We have said of the Cilicians and of the people under the command of Eurypylus what can be said about them, and that they are bounded by the country near the Caïcus.
