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[210] Κεφαλλῆνες as a national or tribal name is applied in the Catalogue ( Il.2. 631 ff.) to all the subjects of Ulysses. Here the mainland, where the herds of cattle were (14. 100), must be intended. There is nothing in the Odyssey to connect the name with the island afterwards called “Κεφαλληνία”. Possibly it was then still confined to a district of Epirus.

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