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[299] The city of Sikyon or Sekyon (see 2.572) lay in a fertile plain between the Peloponnesian mountains and the Corinthian gulf; it was only in the time of Demetrios Poliorketes (303 B.C.) that it was removed to the slopes of the hills (see Frazer, Paus. iii. 43 ff.). The great wealth of Echepolos is due to the richness of his soil. Hence εὐρυχόρωι, with spacious dancing places, properly the epithet of a town. But it seems early to have been confused with “εὐρύχωρος”, or at least to have dropped the significance of its second element; when applied to “Ἑλλάς” (9.478) or Elis (Od. 4.635) it can hardly mean more than spacious, and in this sense it is used by. Pindar (P. viii. 55) and Euripides ( Bacch. 87) in the phrase “εὐρυχόρους ἀγυίας”: see also Pindar O. vii. 18 “Ἀσίας εὐρυχόρου”, P. iv. 43 “Λιβύας εὐρ”.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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