[575] Αἰγιαλόν: the district on the north coast of Peloponnesus, east of Elis.
ἀνά: cf. “ἀνὰ δῶμα Α 570, ἀνὰ στρατόν Α” 10. Ἑλίκην: the principal town (before Aegium) of this district. Here Poseidon received especial honor; cf. 8.203, and ‘Heliconian’ Poseidon 20.404. This city was submerged by an earthquake, 373 B.C. εὐρεῖαν: a freq. epith. of a country (as of Crete and the Troad); rarely applied to a city as here, cf. “ἐνὶ Κνώσψ εὐρείη Σ” 591.This text is part of:
Homer's Iliad, Books I-III. Thomas D. Seymour. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1891.
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