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[50] But I have already discussed these matters.
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I must now add that Homer speaks of a Pedasus, a city of the Leleges, as subject to lord Altes:
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And the site of the place, now deserted, is still to be seen. Some write, though wrongly, “at the foot of Satnioeis,”
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as though the city lay at the foot of a mountain called Satnioeis; but there is no mountain here called Satinoeis, but only a river of that name, on which the city is situated; but the city is now deserted. The poet names the river, for, according to him,
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and again:
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And in later times it was called Satnioeis, though some called it Saphnioeis. It is only a large winter torrent, but the naming of it by the poet has made it worthy of mention. These places are continuous with Dardania and Scepsia, and are, as it were, a second Dardania, but it is lower-lying.
Of Altes, who is lord over the war-loving Leleges, who hold steep Pedasus on the Satnioeis.
he wounded Satnius with a thrust of his spear, even the son of Oenops, whom a peerless Naiad nymph bore unto Oenops, as he tended his herds by the banks of the Satnioeis;
And he dwelt by the banks of the fair-flowing Satnioeis in steep Pedasus.
Geography. Strabo. Horace Leonard Jones (Translator). London. 1924-1929.
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