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[840] ἐγχεσιμώρων, see on 4.242. The Pelasgians are introduced as though they were inhabitants of the Troad, all the preceding nations being evidently regarded as lying within the dominion of Priam, though having their own chiefs; cf. 24.544-5, where the limits given include all the towns hitherto named. (So Leleges and Kilikes, not named here, lived in Troas, from a comparison of 20.92, 6.397, with 9.329.) The Larissa should then be that known as “καθ᾽ Ἁμαξιτόν”, only twenty-five miles from Troy (Strabo p. 620). But this does not suit 17.301, where this same Hippothoos dies “τῆλ᾽ ἀπὸ Λαρίσης”. On this ground Strabo decides for Larissa near Kyme in Aiolis. The simplest explanation is to suppose that the Catalogue speaks of the Trojan Larissa, but that the poet of P was thinking of another. This he might easily do, as no less than eleven towns of the name are recorded by Byz. Steph. and Strabo (p. 440). The name is always brought into connexion with the Pelasgians — whether as a historical fact or as a mere hypothesis we are not in a position to say.

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