Kitap 9
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They inquire particularly, which of these was the city taken by Hercules, and which was the city intended by the author of the poem, The Capture of Oechalia?
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The places, however, were subject to the Asclepiadae.
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The poet next mentions the country which was under the dominion of Eurypylus; They who possessed Ormenium and the spring Hypereia, And they who occupied Asterium and the white peaks of Titanus.Il. ii. 734.Il. ii. 734.
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Ormenium is now called Orminium. It is a village situated below Pelion, near the Pagasitic Gulf, but was one of the cities which contributed to form the settlement of Demetrias, as I have before said.
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The lake Boebeis must be near, because both Boebe and Ormenium belonged to the cities lying around Demetrias.
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Ormenium is distant by land 27 stadia from Demetrias. The site of Iolcus, which is on the road, is distant 7 stadia from Demetrias, and the remaining 20 from Ormenium.
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Demetrius of Scepsis says, that Phoenix came from Ormenium, and that he fled thence from his father Amyntor, the son of Ormenus, to Phthia, to king Peleus. For this place was founded by Ormenus, the son of Cercaphus, the son of Aeolus. The sons of Ormenus were Amyntor and Eumaemon; the son of the former was Phoenix, and of the latter, Eurypylus. The succession to his possessions was preserved secure for Eurypylus, after the departure of Phoenix from his home, and we ought to write the verse of the poet in this manner: as when I first left Ormenium, abounding with flocks,Il. ix. 447.Il. ix. 447. instead of left Hellas, abounding with beautiful women.
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But Crates makes Phoenix a Phocaean, conjecturing this from the helmet of Meges, which Ulysses wore on the night expedition; of which helmet the poet says, Autolycus brought it away from Eleon, out of the house of Amyntor, the son of Ormenus, having broken through the thick walls.Il. x. 226.
