Commentary on line 3
*pa/lin, away (cf. Γ 427, 21.415, Aisch. Ag.777 παλιντρόποις ὄμμασι etc.), though the general direction remains the same (N.W.). Zeus is still on Ida, see Λ 182, 12.252; but it does not follow, as Porphyrios argues, that the Thracians meant were the Asiatic branch of the Thracian stock, the Bithynians. Similarly the *musoi/ are evidently not the Asiatic tribe S. of the Propontis (2.858), but the parent stock who had remained in the old home, and were afterwards called Μοισοί: οἱ Μυσοί, Θρᾶικες ὄντες καὶ αὐτοί, καὶ οὓς νῦν Μοισοὺς καλοῦσιν: ἀφ' ὧν ὡρμήθησαν καὶ οἱ νῦν μεταξὺ Λυδῶν καὶ Φρυγῶν καὶ Τρώων οἰκοῦντες Μυσοί . . καὶ Ὅμηρον δὲ ὀρθῶς εἰκάζειν μοι δοκεῖ Ποσειδώνιος τοὺς ἐν τῆι Εὐρώπηι Μυσοὺς κατονομάζειν, Strabo vii. p. 295. For a similar tribal separation compare the Λύκιοι, note on 5.105.
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