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[521] The words γυναίων εἵνεκα δώρων recur in Od.15. 247, referring to the story of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle. The name Κήτειοι, to represent a stock of the Mysians living in the district of Teuthrania, is said to come from the river “Κήτειος”, an affluent of the Caïcus. But there seems to have been great uncertainty about the name: cp. Strabo Od., 13. p. 615 “οὔτε τοὺς Κητείους ἴσμεν οὕστινας δέξασθαι δεῖ, οὔτε τὸ ‘γυναίων εἵνεκα δώρων.’ ἀλλὰ καὶ οἱ γραμματικοὶ μυθάρια παραβάλλοντες εὑρεσιλογοῦσι μᾶλλον ἢ λύουσι τὰ ζητούμενα” (see crit. note). Some see in the “Κήτειοι” the children of Heth (Gen. 10. 15), and regard them as equivalent to the Kheta of the Egyptian monuments, and the Khatti of Assyrian inscriptions—a powerful tribe originally occupying northern Syria and the lower valley of the Orontes. See Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism, p. 166 foll.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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