Konstantinos Kanellakis recorded various Homeric traditions concerning Aipos and how Homer got there. One such tradition refers to Flori, a point at the mountainous plateau which had always been a transit node with the northern part of the island. As Homer was headed towards Volissos, he stopped to rest under an oak tree. While he was enjoying the shade of the tree, an acorn fell and hit him on the head. Of course, Homer did not discover gravity – we would have to wait for centuries for an apple to hit Isaac Newton on the head – but our poet named an entire region and a type of bird living on the island. Scared as he was from the sudden hit by the acorn, the poet shouted “You too are persecuting me, friendly mountains (fila ori)?” Some shepherds nearby heard wrong and thought he was shouting at the birds… So the spot, as well as the type of bird, were both named Flori.