It is not otherwise
improbable that the palace of should not be at Sparta; and if
it was not there, that Telemachus should say,
“for I am going to Sparta, and to Pylus,”[155]
for this seems to agree with the epithets applied to the country,[156]
unless indeed any one should allow this to be a poetical licence; for,
if Messenia was a part of Laconia, it would be a contradiction that
Messene should not be placed together with Laconia, or with Pylus,
(which was under the command of Nestor,) nor by itself in the Catalogue
of Ships, as though it had no part in the expedition.
improbable that the palace of should not be at Sparta; and if
it was not there, that Telemachus should say,
“for I am going to Sparta, and to Pylus,”[155]
for this seems to agree with the epithets applied to the country,[156]
unless indeed any one should allow this to be a poetical licence; for,
if Messenia was a part of Laconia, it would be a contradiction that
Messene should not be placed together with Laconia, or with Pylus,
(which was under the command of Nestor,) nor by itself in the Catalogue
of Ships, as though it had no part in the expedition.
Strabo
