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[484] The Dolopes are not mentioned in the Catalogue or elsewhere in H. — not even in the catalogue of the Myrmidons, 16.168-97. They were a historical people, apparently closely connected with the Thessalians, whom H. equally ignores; cf. Herod. vii. 132, Strabo ix. p. 431, where the quotation given shews that Pindar must have had this passage or something very similar before him — “Πίνδαρος μνησθεὶς τοῦ Φοίνικος, “ὃς Δολόπων ἄγαγε θρασὺν ὅμιλον σφενδονᾶσαι, ἱπποδάμων Δαναῶν βέλεσι πρόσφορον”.” Dolopia is placed on the southern Pindos range immediately W. of Phthia. Cf. also Ap. Rhod. i. 68.

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

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    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.132
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