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—2 This passage in brackets is an interpolation to explain the subsequent inquiry who the Caucones were. Kramer.[But it is the opinion of some writers, who make the Caucones a subject of inquiry, that when Minerva in the Odyssey, who has assumed the form of Mentor, says to Nestor; At sun-rise I go to the magnanimous Caucones, where a debt neither of a late date nor of small amount is owing to me.Il. iii. 636. When Telemachus comes to thy house send him with thy son, thy chariot, and thy horses; a certain district in the territory of the Epeii appears to be designated, which the Caucones, a different nation from that in Triphylia, possessed, and who perhaps extended even as far as the Dymean territory.] But it was not proper to omit, whence Dyme had the name Cauconitis, nor why the river was called Caucon, because the question is, who the CauconesBook vii. ch. vii. 2. were, to whom Minerva says, she is going to recover a debt. For if we understand the poet to mean those in Triphylia about Lepreum, I know not how this is probable; whence some persons even write the passage, where a large debt is owing to me in the sacred Elis. This will appear more clearly, when we describe the Pisatis, and after it Triphylia as far as the confines of Messenia.
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Next to the Chelonatas is the long tract of coast of the Pisatae; then follows a promontory, Pheia; there was also a small town of this name; by the walls of Pheia about the stream of the Jardanes,I. vii. 135. for there is a small river near it.
