[323] Emathiae: the name meant to the Greeks Macedonia, but with common poetic inexactness is here used of Thessaly; cf. Verg. G. 1.491 “nec fuit indignum superis sanguine nostro Emathiam pinguescere” (of the battle of Pharsalus).
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