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Homer afterwards names, Copae, and Eutresis, and Thisbe, abounding with doves.Il. ii. 502.Il. ii. 502. We have spoken of Copae. It lies towards the north on the lake Copais. The other cities around are, Acraephiae, Phoenicis, Onchestus, Haliartus, Ocalea, Alalcomenae, Tilphusium, Coroneia. Formerly, the lake had no one general name, but derived its appellation from every settlement on its banks, as Copais from Copae,It was still in existence in the time of Pausanias; the modern village Topolia occupies the site. Haliartis from Haliartus, and other names from other places, but latterly the whole has been called Copaïs, for the lake is remarkable for forming at Copae the deepest hollow. Pindar calls it Cephissis, and places near it, not far from Haliartus and Alalcomenae, the fountain Tilphossa, which flows at the foot of Mount Tilphossius. At the fountain is the monument of Teiresias, and in the same place the temple of the Tilphossian Apollo.
2.28
After Copae, the poet mentions Eutresis, a small village of the Thespians.Leake conjectures that there is an error in the text, and that for θεσπιῶν we ought to read θισβῶν, since there is only one spot in the ten miles between Plataea and Thespie where any town is likely to have stood, and that was occupied by Leuctra. See Smith. Here Zethus and Amphion lived before they became kings of Thebes.
2.28
Thisbē is now called Thisbē. The place is situated a little above the sea-coast on the confines of the Thespienses, and the territory of Coroneia; on the south it lies at the foot of Cithaeron. It has an arsenal in a rocky situation abounding with doves, whence the poet terms it Thisbe, with its flights of doves. Thence to Sicyon is a voyage of 160 stadia.
2.29
He next recites the names of Coroneia, Haliartus, Plataeae, and Glissas.
