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Salmone is situated near the spring of that name from which flows the Enipeus River. The river empties into the Alpheius, and is now called the Barnichius.Meineke, following Kramer, ejects the words “and it . . . Barnichius” on the assumption that “barnichus” is a word of Slavic origin. It is said that Tyro fell in love with Enipeus: “She loved a river, the divine Enipeus.”Hom. Od. 11.238Hom. Od. 11.238 For there, it is said, her father Salmoneus reigned, just as Euripides also says in his Aeolus.See Eur. Fr. 14 (Nauck), and the note. Some write the name of the river in Thessaly “Eniseus”; it flows from Mount Othrys, and receives the Apidanus, which flows down out of Pharsalus.In 9. 5. 6 Strabo spells the name of the river in Thessaly “Enipeus,” not “Eniseus”; and says that “it flows from Mt. Othrys past Pharsalus, and then turns aside into the Apidanus.” Hence some of the editors, including Meineke, regarding the two statements as contradictory, eject the words “The name . . . Pharsalus.” But the two passages can easily be reconciled, for (1) “flows out of” (Pharsalus), as often, means “flows out of the territory of,” which was true of the Apidanus; and (2) in 9. 5. 6 Strabo means that the Enipeus “flows past Old Pharsalus,” which was true, and (3) the apparent conflict as to which of the two rivers was tributary is immaterial, since either might be so considered. Near Salmone is Heracleia, which is also one of the eight cities; it is about forty stadia distant from Olympia and is situated on the Cytherius River, where is the temple of the Ioniades Nymphs, who have been believed to cure diseases with their waters.According to Paus. 6.22.7, with the waters of a spring that flowed in to the Cytherus (note the spelling). Near Olympia is Arpina,On Arpina and its site, see Paus. 4.94 ff, and Pauly-Wissowa, s.v. “Harpina.” also one of the eight cities, through whichStrabo means “through the territory of which.” flows the River Parthenias, On the Parthenias (now the Bakireika), see Frazer, l.c. on the road that leads up to Pheraea. Pheraea is in Arcadia, and it is situated above Dymaea and Buprasium and Elis, that is, to the north of PisatisThe words “and it is situated . . . Pisatis” would seem to apply to the Achaean Pharae, not to some Arcadian city; and in that case, apparently, either Strabo has blundered or the words are an interpolation. Meineke ejects the words “Pheraea is . . . Pisatis” and emends “Pherea” to “Heraea”; but Polybius 4.77 mentions a “Pharaea”(note the spelling) in the same region to which Strabo refers, and obviously both writers have in mind the same city. The city is otherwise unknown and therefore the correct spelling is doubtful. See Bölte in Pauly-Wissowa (s.v. “Harpina”, who, however, wrongly quotes “Pharaea” as the spelling found in the MSS. of Strabo. Here, too, is Cicysium, one of the eight cities; and also Dyspontium, which is situated in a plain and on the road that leads from Elis to Olympia; but it was destroyed, and most of its inhabitants emigrated to Epidamnus and Apollonia. Pholoe, an Arcadian mountain, is also situated above Olympia, and very close to it, so that its foothills are in Pisatis. Both the whole of Pisatis and most parts of Triphylia border on Arcadia; and on this account most of the Pylian districts mentioned in the CatalogueHom. Il. 2.591 are thought to be Arcadian; the well-informed, however, deny this, for they say that the Erymanthus, one of the rivers that empty into the Alpheius, forms a boundary of Arcadia and that the districts in question are situated outside that river.i.e., on the seaward side.
