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[283] εἴσατ᾽ ἴμεν, ‘made show of going.’ So Ovid, on the same subject, A. A. 2. 579 “‘fingit iter Lemnon.’” Lemnos was the island where Hephaestus alighted after his fall from heaven, Il.1. 590, where he was received by the Sintians, called inf. 294 “ἀγριόφωνοι”. They were originally (Strabo 12. 3. 20) a Thracian people, and were called in later times “Σαπαῖοι”. From Il.14. 230, 281 we infer that “Λῆμνος” was the name of the city as well as of the island, and that it belonged to the Thoas of Argonautic fame. In the Schol. to Apoll. Rhod. 1. 604 Lemnos is called “δίπολις”, referring to the towns Myrina and Hephaestia. The soil of Lemnos is thoroughly volcanic, and there was a burningmountain in it called Moschylos. The Sintians, as their connection with Hephaestus would suggest, seem to have been smiths by trade; and there was an import of metals to the island, Il.7. 467“νῆες δ᾽ ἐκ Λήμνοιο παρέστασαν οἶνον ἄγουσαι . . ἔνθεν ἄρ᾽ οἰνίζοντο κάρη κομόωντες Ἀχαιοὶ”,

“ἄλλοι μὲν χαλκῷ ἄλλοι δ᾽ αἴθωνι σιδήρῳ”.

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

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