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The extract is ungrammatical, no verb being given to govern σύνοδον καὶ ἰυγήν. The style is Homeric; cf. Il. iv 383Ἀσωπὸν δ̓ ἵκοντο βαθύσχοινον λεχεποίην”. Glisas, mentioned in Homer (Il. ii. 504), lay north-east of Thebes, just south of Mount Hypatus and above the Aonian plain (Strabo 412; Paus. ix. 19. 3 with Frazer); its ruins are perched on the rocky hill of Tourleza. The Thermodon seems to be the Calamites, rising west of Harma and flowing through the Aonian plain to the lake of Hylica (Frazer, Paus. v, p. 62). The fight between the Thebans and the Epigoni was said to have taken place in this region.

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