Note 30 — GREECE.
Leonhard Schmitz translation
The restoration of this passage from the notes has been particularly difficult. From the Lect. on Anc. Hist., vol. i. p. 234, it seems clear that Niebuhr had somewhere publicly expressed his opinion on the passage of Strabo above referred to; but I do not know where he has done so, and I have not been able to avail myself of anything except the notes taken in the lecture-room, some of which are very good. I am firmly persuaded that Niebuhr uttered the words as they are given in the text, though his opinion differs from that now generally adopted, which is based upon the restoration of the text of Strabo, partially the work of C. O. Müller (Dor. vol. i. p. 110). The name Aepys seems to be based upon Iliad, ii. 592, and that of Pherae upon the original text of Strabo himself.--Ed.