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Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 2 (search)
e often spelled Lacmon; one of the heights of Pindus. from the land of the Perrhaebians, into the lands of the Amphilochians and Acarnanians, and mingles with the waters of Acheloüs," and, a little below, he adds, "whence it cleaves the waves to Argos and comes to the people of Lyrceium." Marvellous tales of this sort are stretched still further by those who make the Inopus cross over from the Nile to Delos. And ZoïlusZoïlus (about 400-320 B.C.), the grammarian and rhetorician, of Amphipolisf myths! And Ibycus says that the Asopus in Sicyon rises in Phrygia. But the statement of Hecataeus is better, when he says that the lnachus among the Amphilochians, which flows from Lacmus, as does also the Aeas, is different from the river of Argos, and that it was named by Amphilochus, the man who called the city Argos Amphilochicum.Cp. 7. 7. 7. Now Hecataeus says that this river does empty into the Acheloüs, but that the AeasCp. 7. 5. 8. flows towards the west into Apollonia.On either si