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The verses in Homer are to this effect, Mesthles and Antiphus, sons of Talaemenes, born of the lake Gygaea, were the leaders of the Meones, who live below Tmolus.Il. ii. 864. Some persons add a fourth verse to these, below snowy Tmolus, in the rich district of Hyde. But no HydeB. ix. is to be found among the Lydians. Others make this the birth-place of Tychius, mentioned by the poet, he was the best leather-cutter in Hyde.Il. vii. 221.Il. vii. 221. They add that the place is woody, and frequently struck with lightning, and that here also were the dwellings of the Arimi; for to this verse, Among the Arimi, where they say is the bed of Typhoëus,Il. ii. 783. they add the following, in a woody country, in the rich district of Hyde. Some lay the scene of the last fable in Cilicia, others in Syria, others among the Pithecussae (islands),Pliny does not approve of the word Pithecussae being derived from πίθηκος, a monkey; but from πίθος, a cask. This latter derivation is not natural, whilst the former is at least conformable to analogy. Hesychius confirms the Tyrrhenian meaning of the word Arimi, calling ̓́αριμος, πίθηκος. The expression in Homer, εἰν?̓αοͅίμοις, among the Arini, (which in Roman letters would be ein Arimis, and which is translated into Latin by in Arimis,) signifies in the Pithecussae Islands, according to the opinion of those who placed Typhoëus in Italy. But it is remarkable that from the two words ein Arimis of Homer the name Inarimis has been invented; and quoted as Homer’s by Pliny (iii. 6): Aenasia ipsa, a statione navium Aeneae, Homero Inarime dicta, Graecis Pithecussa, non a simiarum multitudine, ut aliqui existimavere sed a figlinis doliorum. It is not Homer, however, that he ought to have quoted, but Virgil, who was the first to coin one word out of the two Greek words. Inarime Jovis imperiis imposta Typhoëo. Aen. ix. 716. The modern name is Ischia. who say that the Pitheci (or monkeys) are called by the Tyrrhenians Arimi. Some call Sardes Hyde; others give this name to its Acropolis.
