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[20] Τῶν δὲ περικειμένων λιμνῶν ἐστὶν ἥ τε Τρεφία καὶ ἡ Κηφισσίς, ἧς μέμνηται καὶ Ὅμηρος ‘ὅς ῥ᾽ ἐν Ὕλῃ ναίεσκε μέγα πλούτοιο μεμηλώς, λίμνῃ κεκλιμένος Κηφισσίδι.’ οὐ γὰρ λίμνην τὴν Κωπαΐδα βούλεται λέγειν, ὡς οἴονταί τινες, ἀλλὰ τὴν Ὑλικὴν προσαγορευομένην1 ἀπὸ τῆς πλησίον κώμης ἣν καλοῦσιν Ὕλας2, οὐδὲ Ὕδην, ὡς ἔνιοι γράφουσιν ‘ὅς ῥ᾽ ἐν Ὕδῃ ναίεσκεν.’ ἡ μὲν γάρ ἐστιν ἐν Λυδίᾳ ‘Τμώλῳ ὑπὸ νιφόεντι, Ὕδης ἐν πίονι δήμῳ,’ ἡ δὲ Βοιωτιακή: ἐπιφέρει γοῦν τῷ ‘λίμνῃ κεκλιμένος Κηφισσίδι’ τὸ ‘πὰρ δὲ οἱ ἄλλοι ναῖον Βοιωτοί.’ ἡ μὲν γάρ ἐστι μεγάλη καὶ οὐκ ἐν τῇ Θηβαΐδι, ἡ δὲ μικρά, ἐκεῖθεν δι᾽ ὑπονόμων πληρουμένη, κειμένη μεταξὺ Θηβῶν καὶ Ἀνθηδόνος. Ὅμηρος δ᾽ ἑνικῶς ἐκφέρει τοτὲ μὲν ἐκτείνων τὴν πρώτην συλλαβήν, ὡς ἐν τῷ καταλόγῳ ‘ἠδ᾽ Ὕλην καὶ Πετεῶνα,’ ποιητικῶς, τοτὲ δὲ συστέλλων ‘ὅς ῥ᾽ ἐν Ὕλῃ ναίεσκε3’ ‘σκυτοτόμων ὄχ᾽ ἄριστος Ὕλῃ ἔνι οἰκία ναίων.’ οὐδ᾽ ἐνταῦθα εὖ γραφόντων τινῶν Ὕδῃ ἔνι: οὐ γὰρ ὁ Αἴας ἐκ Λυδίας τὸ σάκος μετεπέμπετο.
Strabo. ed. A. Meineke, Geographica. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.
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