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Θεσσαλίης: in the narrower sense defined ch. 132. 1 n.

καὶ δὴ (=ἤδη, iv. 102. 1) τριταῖος cannot mean on the third day after he entered Thessaly (Abicht; cf. vi. 120), nor does the sense ‘three days before’ (Schweighäuser, Stein) seem satisfactory. It surely means ‘on the third day after the arrival of the fleet in Thessaly’, i. e. at the Sepiad shore; cf. Diary in App. XX.

Thessaly was famous for its horses (cf. v. 63), an emblem often used on the coins of its cities; cf. Schol. to Il. ii. 761ἵππον Θεσσαλικὴν Λακεδαιμονίαν τε γυναῖκα”. Theoc. xviii. 30 ἅρματι Θεσσαλὸς ἵππος.

Ὀνόχωνος (vii. 129. 2 n.). Ἠπιδανός (129. 2), like the Enipeus, rises in Mount Othrys. They join together in the Thessalian plain and then fall into the Peneius. The united stream, now the river of Pharsala, was called by the ancients sometimes Enipeus, sometimes Apidanus. H. names the western branch, now Sophaditiko, Apidanus, and the eastern, now Phersaliti, Enipeus. Further, since he limits the Apidanus to Achaia, he must have called the united stream the Enipeus. Thucydides (iv. 78) calls the western stream the Enipeus, as does Strabo 432.

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