Χάλκωνος φίλον υἱὸν, ὃς Ἑλλάδι οἴκια ναίων ὄλβῳ τε πλούτῳ τε μετέπρεπε Μυρμιδόνεσσιν. 6. (Penelope _loq._), Od. i. 344: μεμνημένη αἰεὶ ἀνδρὸς, τοῦ κλέος εὐρὺ καθ’ Ἑλλάδα καὶ μέσον Ἄργος. 7. (Penelope _loq._), Od. iv. 724: ἣ πρὶν μὲν πόσιν ἐσθλὸν ἀπώλεσα θυμολέοντα, παντοίῃς ἀρέτῃσι κεκασμένον ἐν Δαναοῖσι, ἐσθλὸν, τοῦ κλέος εὐρὺ καθ’ Ἑλλάδα καὶ μέσον Ἄργος. 8. Penelope repeats the same lines, Od. iv. 814-16. 9. (Achilles _loq._), Od. xi. 494: εἶπε δέ μοι, Πηλῆος ἀμύμονος εἴ τι πέπυσσαι· ἢ ἐτ’ ἔχει τιμὴν πολέσιν μετὰ Μυρμιδόνεσσιν ἤ μιν ἀτιμάζουσιν ἀν’ Ἑλλάδα τε Φθίην τε. 10. (Menelaus _loq._), to Telemachus, Od. xv. 80: εἰ δ’ ἐθέλεις τραφθῆναι ἀν’ Ἑλλάδα καὶ μέσον Ἄργος, ὄφρα τοι αὐτὸς ἕπωμαι, ὑποζεύξω δέ τοι ἵππους, ἄστεα δ’ ἀνθρώπων ἡγήσομαι. Of these passages, there are some which admit for the word Hellas the contracted sense of the dominions of Peleus, or even of a simple portion of them. Namely the following: In (1) we are reading part of the description of the country, from which the force of Achilles was drawn. Beginning from the line which precedes it, we may translate thus: ‘the inhabitants of Alos, and of Alope, and of Trachin, and those who occupied Phthia, and the Hellas of fair women.’ It is clear, on the face of the passage, that, whatever it may mean, the sense does not require it to mean more in this place than a particular district, forming part of the dominions of Peleus. In (2), where Achilles says, there are many Achæan maids through Hellas and Phthia, any one of whom he can have for a wife. In (5), where we are told that Bathycles, son of Chalcon, dwelt in Hellas, preeminent among the Myrmidons in prosperity and wealth. And in (9), where the shade of Achilles asks whether his father Peleus is still in the enjoyment of kingly power in the populous country of the Myrmidons, or whether he is deprived and despised through the range of Hellas and Phthia. But among these four passages there is a distinction. In (1), (5), and (9) Hellas is combined with Phthia. Now we have seen, that there were Phthians beyond the dominions of Peleus: if the territorial name Phthia was similarly extended, then the presumption would arise that Hellas also might mean something more than lay within those dominions. But there are many passages where Phthia is used without Hellas; and in them all it is used to express the district where Peleus reigned. It is not unlikely therefore, at first sight, that Hellas has the limited sense of a part of the kingdom in these passages. And in the passage relating to Bathycles, the son of Chalcon, the limited sense is yet more strongly suggested; yet, as we may hereafter see more clearly, it is by no means positively required either in that or in any of these four places.