Strabo Geography 8.3.32

Horace Leonard Jones (Translator)

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Geography. Strabo. Horace Leonard Jones (Translator). London. 1924-1929.

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Geography (Books 6-14) (English) (Strabo. The Geography of Strabo, Vols. 3-6. Jones, Horace Leonard, translator. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1924-1929 (printing).)

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Γεωγραφικά Perseus (Strabo. Strabonis Geographica, Vols. 1-3. Meineke, August, editor. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.) — 8.3.32 focus
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Geography Perseus (Strabo. The Geography of Strabo, Vols. 1-3. Hamilton, Hans Claude, translator; Falconer, William, translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854-1857.) — 8.3.32 focus

Notes on the current edition

Geography

1. Meineke, following Kramer, ejects the words “and it . . . Barnichius” on the assumption that “barnichus” is a word of Slavic origin.
2. Hom. Od. 11.238
3. Hom. Od. 11.238
4. See Eur. Fr. 14 (Nauck) , and the note.
5. 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.
6. According to Paus. 6.22.7 , with the waters of a spring that flowed in to the Cytherus (note the spelling).
7. On Arpina and its site, see Paus. 4.94 ff , and Pauly-Wissowa, s.v. “Harpina.”
8. Strabo means “through the territory of which.”
9. On the Parthenias (now the Bakireika), see Frazer, l.c.
10. The 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.
11. Hom. Il. 2.591
12. i.e., on the seaward side.