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W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), Book 5 (e）, line 123 (search)
legend about Orion serves to confirm the identity of Ortygia and Delos. The name Ortygia occurs in several localities, but it is always connected with the worship of Artemis (cp. Soph. Trachin. 214); and the existence of a Syracusan Ortygia (which Völcker understands to be alluded to in this passage) seems only to mean that the Syracusan colonists (B. C. 734） introduced into their new home the cult of the Delian Artemis. In Od.15. 403 the island *suri/h is described as being *)ortugi/hs kaqu/perqen, which would sufficiently mark the position of the Cyclad Syros, west of Rhenaea, and this is confirmed by the statement in v. 410, that the island was under the joint protection of Artemis and Apollo. There is a further doubt whe