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The Teneric Plain is named after Tenerus. In myth he was the son of Apollo by Melia, and was a prophet of the oracle on the Ptoüs Mountain, which the same poet calls three-peaked: “and once he took possession of the three-peaked hollow of Ptoüs.”Pind. Fr. 102 (Bergk)And he calls Tenerus “temple minister, prophet, called by the same name as the plains.”Pind. Fr. 102 (Bergk)The Ptoüs lies above the Teneric Plain and Lake Copais near Acraephium. Both the oracle and the mountain belonged to the Thebans. And Acraephium itself also lies on a height. They say that this is called Arne by the poet, the same name as the Thessalian city.
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Some say that Arne too was swallowed up by the lake, as well as Mideia.Cf. 1. 3. 18. Zenodotus, who writes “and those who possessed Ascrei.e., Zenodotus emended Homer’s “Arne” (Hom. Il. 2.507) to Ascre.” rich in vineyards,”Hom. Il. 2.507 seems not to have read the statements of Hesiod concerning his native land, nor those of Eudoxus, who says much worse things concerning Ascre. For how could anyone believe that such a place was called “rich in vineyards” by the poet? Wrong, also, are those who write “Tarne” instead of “Arne”; for not a single place named Tarne is pointed out among the Boeotians, though there is one among the Lydians, and this the poet mentions: “Idomeneus then slew Phaestus, son of Borus the Maeonian, who came from fertile Tarne.”Hom. Il. 5.43 The remaining Boeotian cities concerning which it is worthwhile to make mention are: of those situated round the lake, Alalcomenae and Tilphossium, and, of the rest, Chaeroneia, Lebadeia, and Leuctra.
