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The city which the poet (Homer) now calls Thryum he elsewhere
calls Thryoessa: "There is a certain city, Thryoessa, a steep hill, far away on
the Alpheius." He calls it "fording-place of the Alpheius" because the river could
be crossed on foot, as it seems, at this place. But it is now called Epitalium
(a small place in Macistia) ..
Thryum, or Thryoessa, they say, is Epitalium, because the whole of this country
is full of rushes, particularly the rivers; and this is still more conspicuous
at the fordable places of the stream. But perhaps, they say, Homer called the
ford "Thryum" and called Epitalium "well-built Aepy"; for Epitalium is fortified
by nature. And in fact he speaks of a "steep hill" in other places:
"There is a certain city, Thryoessa, a steep hill, far away
on the Alpheius, last city of sandy Pylus."
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