2304 Or Crommyon. It was the chief place on the Saronic Gulf, between the Isthmus, properly so called, and Megara. Its ruins are thought to be those seen near the chapel of Saint Theodorus. It was said to have been the haunt of the wild boar killed by Theseus.
2305 So called from being the scene of the ravages of the robber Sciron. They are now called Kaki Scala.
2306 Famous as the principal seat of the worship of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone. Its remains are to be seen at the modern Lefsina.
2307 Pera Chora marks its site. It was a member of the Tetrapolis of Attica, and Probalinthos another.
2308 Ulrichs, the best authority, places the port of Phalerum at the east corner of the great Phaleric Bay, in the vicinity of Tripirghi, or the Three Towers. The three harbours of the Piræus are the present Phanari, Stratiotiki or Paschalimani, and Drako or Porto Leone.
2309 The Piræus was united to the city by two walls, called the “Long Walls,” forty stadia in length. The length of the Phaleric wall was thirty-five stadia.
2310 It is to be regretted that such was his opinion. He could have well spared space for a description of it.
2311 The city of Cephisia, still called Kivisia, was one of the twelve cities of Cecrops. The fountain of transparent water is still to be seen here.
2312 Or the “Nine Springs.” It was the only source of good water for drinking purposes in Athens. This spring is still called by its ancient name. Of Larine nothing seems to be known.
2313 This is thought to have been the ancient name of the mountain afterwards known as Pentelicus, so famous for its marble, now called Mendeli or Penteli.
2314 The northern or Greater Hymettus is now called Telo-Vuni, the southern or Lesser Mavro-Vuni.
2315 On the N.E. of Athens, now called the Hill of Saint George.
2316 Probably on the river of the same name.
2317 Now Capo Colonna.
2318 North of Sunium and the modern bay of Panorimo. Thoricus was one of the Demi of Attica.
2319 This was the name of two Demi, though probably one place. It lay on the east coast to the north of Thoricus. Its harbour was probably the modern Dhaskalio; and the town is placed by Leake at the ruins called Paleokastro, to the south of the village of Dardheza.
2320 On the east coast, between Prasiæ and Brauron.
2321 One of the twelve ancient cities of Cecrops, on the eastern coast. Its name is supposed to be preserved in those of the villages Vraona and Paleo Vraona.
2322 A Demus belonging to the tribe Æantis. It was famous for its temple of Nemesis, the goddess of retribution. The present Obrio Castro occupies its site.
2323 Memorable for the defeat of the Persians by the Athenians, B.C. 490. The site of the ancient town of Marathon is thought not to have been at the modern village of Marathon, but a place called Vrana, to the south of it.
2324 The eastern part of the Eleusinian plain was thus called, from the Demus of Thria. Its exact site is uncertain.
2325 Melite was a Demus of the tribe Cecropis, of Athens, west of the Inner Ceramicus.
2326 Now Oropo, on the eastern frontiers of Bœotia and Attica, near the Euripus. It originally belonged to the Bœotians.
2327 Its ruins are supposed to be those seen eight miles from Egripo. Lukisi has also been suggested.
2328 Its ruins are still to be seen on the S.W. slope of Mount Faga.
2329 On the S.E. slope of Mount Helicon. Its ruins are to be seen at the modern Eremo or Rimokastro.
2330 Now Livadhia. The celebrated cave of Trophonius stood in its vicinity.
2331 Extensive remains of it are still to be seen; but the modern town of Theba or Stiva stands only on the site of its ancient Cadmea or citadel.
2332 To distinguish it from places of the same name in Egypt, Phthiotis, and Lucania.
2333 On the range of mountains of that name separating Bœotia from Megaris and Attica. The forest abounded in game, and the vicinity was a favourite scene of the poetic legends. Paleovuni is the highest summit of the Heliconian range. Leake fixes the Grove of the Muses at the present church of Saint Nicholas, at the foot of Mount Marandali, one of the summits of Helicon.
2334 These fountains or springs are very difficult to identify, but Hippocrene, or the “Horse-Spring” (said to have been produced by Pegasus striking the ground with his feet), was probably at the present Makariotissa; while Aganippe is the fountain that flows midway between Paleo-panaghia and Pyrgaki.
2335 This place was originally a member of the Bœotian confederacy, but joined the Athenians, though it did not become an Attic Demus. Leake thinks that its ruins are those seen at Myupoli. Ross thinks that it stood to the east of Ghyfto-kastro, while other writers are of opinion that it stood more to the west, near the modern village of Kundara.
2336 Razed to the ground by the Roman prætor Lucretius, for having espoused the cause of king Perseus. Its remains are seen about a mile from the village of Mazi, on the road from Thebes to Lebadæa.
2337 Memorable for the defeat of the Persians under Mardonius, B.C. 479.
2338 Distant twenty stadia from Orchomenus. Leake places it at the modern Izamali, Forchhammer at Avro-Kastro.
2339 Its site is uncertain. Leake supposes it to be at Paleokastro, between the north end of Lake Hylica and the foot of Mount Palea. Ulrichs places it at the south end of the lake.
2340 The modern Kakosia occupies its site.
2341 At the foot of Mount Cithæron. Leake places it eastward of Katzula, at the foot of the rocks there.
2342 Leake identifies it with the ruins on the torrent of Plataniki, below the mountain of Siamata. Pausanias says it was situate seven stadia beyond Teumessus, and at the foot of Hypatus, now Siamata.
2343 On Lake Copaïs. The modern village of Topolia occupies its site.
2344 The waters of the Cephisus here burst forth from their subterraneous channel.
2345 On Lake Copaïs. Its ruins are at a short distance to the south of the modern Kardhitza.
2346 South of Mount Helicon. Its principal remains are those of its theatre, a temple of Hera, and the agora or market-place.
2347 On the borders of Phocis; famous for the battles fought in its vicinity between the Athenians and Bœotians, B.C. 447, and between Philip of Macedon and the Athenians and Bœotians, B.C. 338, and that in which Sylla defeated the generals of Mithridates B.C. 86. It stood on the site of the modern village of Kapurna.
2348 On the river Copaïs, at the foot of Mount Tilphusion.
2349 On the river of that name, and on the road from Thebes to Anthedon.
2350 Its site appears to be unknown.
2351 Enumerated by Homer with Aulis. Ancient critics have, without sufficient reason, identified it with Hysiæ.
2352 It was sacked by the Athenians, B.C. 413, and in ruins in the time of Pausanias.
2353 The modern Grimadha or Grimala occupies its site.
2354 The modern channel of Egripo.
2355 The place where the Grecian fleet assembled when about to sail for Troy. Leake says that its harbour is now called Vathy, evidently from the Greek βαθὺς, “wide.”
2356 So called from dwelling near Mount Cnemis.
2357 Its ruins are to be seen three miles from the modern Talanti.
2358 Now the Golfo di Talanti.
2359 On the Eubœan Sea, which here extended to the Corinthian Gulf. It was in ruins in the time of Strabo. Cynus was the chief sea-port of the Locri Opuntii. Its site is marked by a tower called Palæopyrgo, and some ruins to the south of the village of Livanates.
2360 The modern village of Lefti stands on its site, and there are some ruins to be seen.
2361 In C. iv. of this Book.
2362 Or Cnemides, a fortress built on the range of Mount Cnemis, near the modern Nikoraki.
2363 Ravaged by Philip of Macedon. Its ruins are near the modern village of Vogdhani.
2364 The Lower Larymna. Its ruins are seen between the modern Matzumadi and Martini.
2365 Its ruins are to be seen near the modern Andera.
2366 Between Daphnus and Cynus. Gell found its ruins on a hill near the sea-shore.
2367 Its ruins are to be seen three miles from those of Thronium.
2368 Now called the Gulf of Zeitoun. The people from whom it received its name were the Malienses.
2369 Its ruins are two leagues from the modern town of Zeitoun.
2370 Or Sperchia.
2371 Strabo says that it lay below the town of Pindus. It is perhaps the present Palæo Choria.
2372 Its ruins are placed by Leake near the modern Mariolates.
2373 Like Pindus, one of the four towns or Tetrapolis of Doris. Its site corresponds to the modern Gravia.
2374 He seems to think that the name Græcus is older than that of Hellen, in which he is supported by Apollodorus.
2375 So called from Echion, fabled to have sprung from the dragon’s teeth. Its site is marked by the modern village called Akhino. The Sperchius is now called the Ellada.
2376 This famous spot still retains its name. It is also called Bocca di Lupo.
2377 From τραχὺς, “narrow,” in allusion to the narrowness of the mountain passes. Brotier places it on the site of the modern Zeitoun, but he is probably in error.
2378 A peak of the range of Œta.
2379 The name of a town and small district of Phthiotis: it eventually gave its name to the whole of Greece, which by its inhabitants was called Hellas.
2380 Near the river Amphrysus. Leake places it at Kefalosi, at the extremity of Mount Othrys.
2381 The modern Zeitoun.
2382 Said to have been the city of Achilles.
2383 According to Stephanus of Byzantium, Cierium was identical with Arne. Leake places it at the modern Mataranga.
2384 So called from the people called Minyæ, who derived their name from Minyas, the father of Orchomenus. In the time of Strabo, this city, the capital of the Minyan empire, was in ruins. Its site is now called Seripu.
2385 Leake places its site on the left bank of the Peneius, opposite the village of Gunitza.
2386 The residence of Admetus, and in later times of the tyrants of Thessaly. The modern Valestina occupies its site.
2388 The ancient capital of the Pelasgi. It is now called Larissa, Larza, or Ienitchen.
2389 Leake places Gomphi on the heights now called Episkopi, on the left bank of the Bliuri.
2390 Its ruins are said to be seen about eight miles from the modern city of Volo.
2391 The city of Volo stands on its site. The Gulf is called the Bay of Volo.
2392 This is not strictly correct. Demetrias was founded by Demetrius Poliorcetes, about two or three miles to the west of Pagasa, the inhabitants of which were removed to that place. Its remains are to be seen, according to Leake, on the face of a maritime height called Goritza.
2393 Pharsalus, now Farsa or Fersala, in Thessaliotis. On its plain Pompey was defeated by Cæsar, B.C. 48.
2394 Or Cranon; said to have been anciently called Ephyre. Leake places its site at some ruins called Palea Larissa, distant two hours and twenty-seven minutes’ journey from Larissa. It was the residence of the powerful family of the Scopadæ.
2395 This range in Macedonia is now called Verria. Herodotus states that it was impassably for cold, and that beyond were the gardens of Midas, where roses grew spontaneously.
2396 The name of the eastern part of the great mountain chain extending west and east from the Promontory of Acroceraunia on the Adriatic to the Thermaic Gulf. It is now called by the Greeks Elymbo, and by the Turks Semavat-Evi, the “Abode of the Celestials.” A portion of this range was called Pierus; and Ossa, now Kissavo, the “ivy-clad,” was divided from Olympus on the N.W. by the Vale of Tempe. Othrys extended from the south of Mount Pindus, to the eastern coast and the Promontory between the Gulf of Pagasa and the northern point of Eubœa.
2397 Now called Plessedhi or Zagora; situate in the district of Magnesia in Thessaly, between lake Bœbeis and the Pagasæan Gulf.
2398 Now the Gouropotamo.
2399 Flowing into the Asopus near Thermopylæ.
2400 In Pieria. Supposed to be the modern Litokhoro.
2401 The modern Rajani.
2402 This lake received the rivers Onchestus, Amyrus, and others. It is now called Karla, from an adjoining village which has ceased to exist. The town of Bœbe was in its vicinity.
2403 Now the Salambria or Salamria.
2404 The jugerum was properly 240 feet long and 120 broad, but Pliny uses it here solely as a measure of length; corresponding probably to the Greek πλέθρον, 100 Grecian or 104 Roman feet long. Tempe is the only channel through which the waters of the Thessalian plain flow into the sea.
2405 Il. B. ii. c. 262. He alludes to the poetical legend that the Orcus or Titaresius was a river of the infernal regions. Its waters were impregnated with an oily substance, whence probably originated the story of the unwillingness of the Peneus to mingle with it. It is now called the Elasonitiko or Xeraghi.
2406 Near Libethrum; said to be a favourite haunt of the Muses, whence their name “Libethrides.” It is near the modern Goritza.
2407 Leake places its site on the height between the southernmost houses of Volo and Vlakho-Makhala. No remains of it are to be seen.
2408 Ansart says that on its site stands the modern Korakai Pyrgos.
2409 Near Neokhori, and called Eleutherokhori.
2410 Now Kortos, near Argalisti, according to Ansart.
2411 Now Haghios Georgios, or the Promontory of St. George.
2412 At the foot of Mount Pelion. Leake places it at some ruins near a small port called Tamukhari. The chestnut tree derived its Greek and modern name from this place, in the vicinity of which it still abounds.
2413 Probably near the village of Hagia Eutimia, according to Ansart.
2414 Now Trikeri.
2415 Melibœa was near the modern Mintzeles, and Rhizus near Pesi Dendra, according to Ansart.
2416 Ansart says, in the vicinity of the modern Conomio.
2417 Situate at the foot of Mount Homole, between Tempe and the village of Karitza. Leake thinks that the Convent of St. Demetrius, on the lower part of Mount Kissavo, stands on its site.
2418 Now Tournovo, according to Ansart.
2419 Now called Democo, according to Ansart.
2420 Between the Titaresius and the Peneus. The modern village of Tatari stands on its site.
2421 Probably the place of the same name mentioned in the last Chapter.
2422 Probably the same as Acharræ on the river Pamisus, mentioned by Livy, B. xxxii. c. 13.
2423 On the Dotian Plain, mentioned by Hesiod, and probably the same place that Pindar calls Lacereia.
2424 The birth-place of Protesilaüs, the first victim of the Trojan war.
2425 Nothing is known of this place. The word “porro” appears instead of it in some editions.
2426 Philip, the Conqueror of Greece, and Alexander, the Conqueror of Asia.
2427 The original Emathia, as mentioned by Homer, is coupled with Pieria as lying between the Hellenic cities of Thessaly and Pæonia, and Thrace.
2428 A tribe of the south-west of Mœsia, and extending over a part of Illyricum. According to Strabo, they were a wild race, of filthy habits, living in caves under dunghills, but fond of music.
2430 Supposed by some writers to be the same place as Edessa. Ansart says it is the spot now known as Moglena.
2431 Now Verria in Roumelia. St. Paul and Silas withdrew to this place from Thessalonica. The remains are very considerable.
2432 Described by Livy as of great strength. It occupied the site of the modern Stagus.
2433 Surnamed Lyncestis; the chief town of Upper Macedonia. It must have stood not far from the modern town of Felurina.
2434 Now the Platamona.
2435 Now Kitron. The Romans usually called it Citron or Citrus.
2436 In the inmost recess of the Thermaic Gulf. Leake supposes it to have occupied the site of the present Palea Khora, near Kapsokhori.
2437 Now the Vistritza, by the Turks called Inje-Karra. Cæsar calls it the boundary between Macedonia and Thessaly.
2438 The people apparently of Aloros just mentioned.
2439 Vallæ and Phylacæ appear to have been two towns of Pieria.
2440 The people of Cyrrhus; probably on the site of the present Vistritza. Leake however makes a place called Paleokastro to occupy its site. Tyrissæ was probably in its vicinity.
2441 Now Alaklisi, upon a lake formed by the Lydias. Philip made it the capital of Macedonia, and it was the birth-place of Alexander the Great. It was made a Roman colony under the name of Julia Augusta Pella.
2442 Its ruins are still called Stoli.
2443 There were two places of this name in Macedonia; one called Antigonia Psaphara in Chalcidice, and the other in Pæonia.
2444 Between Idomene and the plains of Pella. As Pliny here says, it was a different place from Europus of Almopia, by which the Rhœdias flows. Of the following places nothing seems to be known.
2445 Coupled by Herodotus with Pella. Eordæa seems to have been the name of the district on the river Eordaicus, identified with the modern Devol.
2446 They dwelt in the vicinity of Mount Scomium. The river Axius is the modern Vardhari.
2447 Or Thrace.
2448 People of Paroræa in Thrace.
2449 The people probably of Eordæa, already mentioned.
2450 Leake thinks that Almopia was the name of the district now called Moglena.
2451 The Mygdones were a Thracian people in the east of Macedonia, on the Thermaic Gulf.
2452 The people of Arethusa, a town of Bisaltia in Macedonia, in the pass of Aulon. Euripides, the tragic poet, was buried here.
2453 A town of Mygdonia.
2454 The people of Idomene, a town about twelve miles from the pass of Stena, now Demirkapi, or the ‘Iron Gate,’ on the river Vardhari.
2455 Their district of Doberus is supposed to have been near the modern Doghiran.
2456 It has been suggested that Garescus stood on the same site as the modern Nurocopo. Many of these peoples are now entirely unknown.
2457 The people of Lyncestis, in Macedonia, of Illyrian origin and on the frontiers of Illyria. Lyncus was the ancient capital, Heraclæa the more modern one.
2458 Probably the inhabitants of the slopes of Mount Othrys.
2459 Amantia was properly in Illyria, to the south of the river Aoüs. Leake places it at Nivitza.
2460 A people of the north of Epirus, on the borders of Macedonia. They were said to have derived their name from Orestes, who, after the murder of his mother, founded in their territory the town of Argos Oresticum.
2461 A Greek city of Illyria. Dr. Holland discovered its remains at Graditza on the Aoüs or Viosa.
2462 The bulwark of the Macedonian maritime frontier to the south. Leake discovered its site near the modern Malathria.
2463 On the right bank of the river Strymon in Thracian Macedonia. It stood on the site of the modern Zervokhori.
2464 A people of Epirus on the borders of Thessaly.
2465 In Mygdonia, at the mouth of the Axius—King Perseus put all its male inhabitants to death. Its site was at or near the modern Kulakia.
2466 Now Saloniki. Its original name was Thermæ, but it was first made an important city by Cassander, B.C. 315, who gave it its new name in honour of his wife, the sister of Alexander the Great: St. Paul visited it about A.D. 53, and two years after addressed from Corinth two Epistles to his converts in the city.
2467 Polybius says, in Strabo, B. vii., 267 miles.
2468 As already mentioned, Thermæ became merged in Thessalonica, when refounded by Cassander under that name.
2469 Now the Gulf of Saloniki.
2470 This is probably an error. Pydna, already mentioned, lay far inland in the district of Pieria.
2471 On the peninsula of Pallene. Its male inhabitants were put to death by the Athenians in the Peloponnesian war.
2472 Now Capo Paliuri, the extreme point of the Isthmus of Pallene.
2473 The most westerly of the three peninsulas of Chalcidice. Phlegra is generally understood to have been its former name.
2474 Perhaps the same as Nyssa, between the rivers Nestus or Mestus, and Strymon.
2475 Its ruins are now called Pinaka. It was a colony of the Corinthians but refounded by Cassander, King Philip having previously destroyed the city.
2476 South-east of Thessalonica, and north of Chalcidice. It was given by King Philip to the Olynthians.
2477 Near Mount Athos.
2478 Now Molivo, at the head of the Toronaic Gulf, part of which thence took its name.
2479 The name of a promontory at the extremity of the peninsula of Sithonia, in Chalcidice. It seems to correspond with the modern Capo Kartali.
2480 In the district of Chalcidice, on the S.W. of the peninsula of Sithonia.
2481 On the east of the peninsula of Sithonia. It gave its name to the Sinus Singiticus or Singitic Gulf.
2482 Now Monte Santo, at the end of the long peninsula running out from Chalcidice.
2483 This is a mistake. It is only forty miles in length. From Lieut. Smith (Journal of Royal Geogr. Soc. vol. vii. p. 65) we learn that its average breadth is about four miles; consequently Pliny’s statement as to its circumference must be greatly exaggerated. Juvenal, Sat. x. l. 174, mentions the story of the canal as a specimen of Greek falsehood; but distinct traces have survived, to be seen by modern travellers, all the way from the Gulf of Monte Santo to the Bay of Erso in the Gulf of Contessa, except about 200 yards in the middle, which has been probably filled up.
2484 Or Acrothoüm. Pliny, with Strabo and Mela, errs in thinking that it stood on the mountain. It stood on the peninsula only, probably on the site of the modern Lavra.
2485 Or the ‘Heaven City,’ from its elevated position. It was founded by Alexarchus, brother of Cassander, king of Macedon.
2486 Probably on the west side of the peninsula, south of Thyssus.
2487 Or “long-lived.”
2488 Now Erisso; on the east side of the Isthmus, about a mile and a half from the canal of Xerxes. There are ruins here of a large mole.
2489 A little to the north of the Isthmus now called Stavro. It was the birth-place of Aristotle the philosopher, commonly called the Stagirite, and was, in consequence, restored by Philip, by whom it had been destroyed; or, as Pliny says in B. vii. c. 30, by Alexander the Great.
2490 The name of the central one of the three peninsulas projecting from Chalcidice. The poets use the word Sithonius frequently as signifying ‘Thracian.’
2491 Possibly not the same as the Heraclea Sintica previously mentioned.
2492 Now called Pollina, south of Lake Bolbe, on the road from Thessalonica to Amphipolis.
2493 Sacred to Poseidon or Neptune. Now Capo Stavros in Thessaly, the west front of the Gulf of Pagasa, if indeed this is the place here meant.
2494 On the left or eastern bank of the river Strymon, which flowed round it, whence its name Amphi-polis, “round the city.” Its site is now occupied by a village called Neokhorio, in Turkish Jeni-Keni or “Newtown.” A few remains are still to be seen. The bay at the mouth of the Strymon, now Struma or Kara-Sou, is called the Gulf of Orphano.
2495 A Thracian people, extending from the river Strymon on the east to Crestonica on the west.
2496 In Mount Scomius namely, one of the Hæmus or Balkan range.
2497 Under Alexander the Great. On his death his empire was torn in pieces by the contentions of his generals.
2498 In allusion to the legendary accounts of the Indian expeditions of Bacchus and Hercules.
2499 On the conquest of Perseus. Plutarch says that these seventy cities were pillaged in one and the same hour. They were thus punished for their support of Perseus.
2500 Alexander the Great and Paulus Æmilius.
2501 Or præfectures, as the Romans called them.
2503 An extensive tribe occupying the country about the rivers Axius, Strymon, and Nestus or Mestus.
2504 This river is now called the Mesto or Kara-Sou.
2505 A range between the Strymon and the Nestus, now the Pangea or Despoto-Dagh.
2506 Probably a canton or division of the Bessi.
2507 The most powerful people of Thrace; dwelling on both sides of the Artiscus, and on the plain of the Hebrus.
2508 Now the Maritza. It rises near the point where Mount Scomius joins Mount Rhodope. The localities of most of the tribes here named are unknown.
2509 The name of this people is often used by the poets to express the whole of Thrace. The district of Edonis, on the left bank of the Strymon, properly extended from Lake Cercinitis as far east as the river Nestus.
2510 Or “Trouble City,” also called Eumolpias.
2511 Or “Philip’s City,” founded by Philip of Macedon; still called Philippopoli.
2512 Because it stood on a hill with three summits. Under the Roman empire it was the capital of the province of Thracia.
2513 On account probably of the winding nature of the roads; as the height of the Balkan range in no part exceeds 3000 feet. With Theopompus probably originated the erroneous notion among the ancients as to its exceeding height.
2515 The inhabitants of the present Bulgaria, it is supposed.
2516 Following the account which represent him as a king of the Cicones, and dwelling in the vicinity of Mount Rhodope. The Sithonii here mentioned dwelt about the mouth of the Ister, or Danube, and were a different people from those of Sithonia, in Chalcidice, referred to in a previous note.
2517 The Sea of Marmora.
2518 It is difficult to conceive which place of this name is here alluded to, as there seem to have been four places on this coast so called, and all mentioned by Pliny in the present Book.
2519 Called Æsyma by Homer; between the rivers Strymon and Nestus.
2520 Now called Kavallo, on the Strymonic Gulf. The site of Datos appears to be unknown.
2521 Now called Filiba, or Felibejik, on a height of Mount Pangæus, on the river Gangites, between the Nestus and the Strymon. It was founded by Philip, on the site of the ancient town of Crenides, in the vicinity of the gold mines. Here Augustus and Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius, B.C. 42; and here the Apostle Paul first preached the Gospel in Europe, A.D. 53. See Acts xvi. 12.
2522 Its site seems unknown, but it is evidently a different place from that mentioned in the last Chapter.
2523 Also called Mestus.
2524 Sintica, previously mentioned.
2525 Now Aco Mamas, at the head of the Toronaic Gulf. It was the most important Greek city on the coast of Macedon. It was taken and destroyed by Philip, B.C. 347, and its inhabitants sold as slaves. Mecyberna, already mentioned, was used as its sea-port.
2526 On the coast, and east of the river Nestus. Its people were proverbial for their stupidity, though it produced the philosophers Democritus, Protagoras, and Anaxarchus. No traces of its site are to be found.
2527 Now called the Lagos Buru. The name of the Bistones is sometimes used by the poets for that of the Thracians in general.
2528 Or mares rather. Diomedes was the son of Ares, or Mars, and king of the Bistones. He was slain by Hercules.
2529 By some identified with the modern Curnu, by others with Bauron.
2530 Or Ismarus, at the foot of Mount Ismarus.
2531 Now Marogna.
2532 A promontory opposite the island of Samothrace.
2533 A town on a promontory of the same name, said to have been frequented by Orpheus.
2534 The Plain of Doriscus is now called the Plain of Romigik. Parisot suggests the true reading here to be 100,000, or, as some MSS. have it, 120,000, there being nothing remarkable in a plain containing 10,000 men. Pliny however does not mention it as being remarkable, but merely suggests that the method used by Xerxes here for numbering his host is worthy of attention.
2535 Now the Maritza. At its mouth it divides into two branches, the eastern forming the port of Stentor.
2536 Still called Enos.
2537 A son of Priam and Hecuba, murdered by Polymnestor, king of the Thracian Chersonesus, to obtain his treasures. See the Æneid, B. iii.
2538 From the Greek, μάκρον τεῖχος.
2539 Now the Gulf of Enos.
2540 Now Ipsala, or Chapsylar, near Keshan.
2541 Now Rodosto, or Rodostshig, on the coast of the Propontis, or Sea of Marmora.
2542 Now called the Peninsula of the Dardanelles, or of Gallipoli. The wall was built to protect it from incursions from the mainland.
2543 He here skips nearly five degrees of latitude, and at once proceeds to the northern parts of Thrace, at the mouth of the Danube, and moves to the south.
2544 Or, the “city of the Ister,” at the south of Lake Halmyris, on the Euxine. Its site is not exactly known; but by some it is supposed to have been the same with that of the modern Kostendsje.
2545 Now Temesvar, or Jegni Pangola, the capital of Scythia Minor. It was said to have been so called from the Greek τέμνω, “to cut,” because Medea here cut to pieces the body of her brother Absyrtus. It is famous as the place of Ovid’s banishment; and here he wrote his ‘Tristia’ and his ‘Pontic Epistles.’
2546 Usually identified with the modern Collat, or Collati.
2547 Its site does not appear to be known, nor yet those of many of the towns here mentioned.
2548 This story no doubt arose from the similarity of its name to γέρανος, “a crane;” the cranes and the Pigmies, according to the poets, being in a state of continual warfare.
2549 Supposed to be the present Varna.
2550 Now called Daphne-Soui, according to D’Anville.
2551 Said to have been built by Aristæus, son of Apollo.
2552 Now Missivri.
2553 Or Anchiale, now Akiali.
2554 Now Sizeboli, famous for its temple of Apollo, with his statue, thirty cubits in height, which Lucullus carried to Rome. In later times it was called Sozopolis.
2555 Now Tiniada.
2556 The present Midjeh, according to D’Anville.
2557 Afterwards called Zagora, which name it still bears.
2558 Or Straits of Constantinople.
2559 Between Galata and Fanar, according to Brotier.
2560 Or Golden Horn; still known by that name.
2561 The site of the present Constantinople.
2562 These rivers do not appear to have been identified.
2563 The present Silivri occupies its site.
2564 An important town of Thrace. Eski Erckli stands on its site.
2565 Now Vizia, or Viza.
2566 He alludes to the poetical story of Tereus, king of Thrace, Progne, and Philomela. Aldrovandus suggests that the real cause of the absence of the swallow is the great prevalence here of northern winds, to which they have an aversion.
2567 So called probably from the Thracian tribe of the Cænici, or Cæni.
2568 Now called Erkene, a tributary of the Hebrus.
2569 All that is known of it is, that it is mentioned as a fortress on the Propontis.
2570 Hexamila now occupies its site.
2571 The isthmus or neck of the Peninsula of Gallipoli, or the Dardanelles.
2572 That of Corinth. They are both about five miles wide at the narrowest part.
2573 Now Cardia, or Caridia. It was the birth-place of king Eumenes.
2574 From καρδία, in consequence of its supposed resemblance to a heart.
2575 Lysimachus destroyed Cardia, and, building Lysimachia, peopled it with the inhabitants.
2576 Mannert identities it with the ancient Ægos and the modern Galata.
2577 More generally called Ægospotamos, the “Goat River,” upon which the town of Ægos stood. It was here that Lysander defeated the Athenian fleet, B.C. 405, which put an end to the Peloponnesian war.
2578 Antoninus, in his Itinerary, makes this distance twenty-six miles.
2580 Now Gallipoli, a place of considerable commercial importance.
2581 Now Ialova; famous in Grecian poetry, with Abydos, for the loves of Hero and Leander.
2582 Now Lamsaki.
2583 The village of Aidos, or Avido, probably marks its site. To the north, Xerxes passed over to Sestos on his bridge of boats, B.C. 480.
2584 Now Capo Helles.
2585 Now Jeni-Hisari, the N.W. promontory of Troas. Here Homer places the Grecian camp during the Trojan war.
2586 Meaning the “Bitch’s tomb,” the fable being that Hecuba, in her old age, was changed into that animal. It was near the town of Madytus.
2587 Meaning that their fleet was anchored off here during the Trojan war.
2588 A magnificent temple was erected near his tomb at Eleus, where he also had a sacred grove. It was greatly enriched by the votive offerings of Greek travellers. According to D’Anville, its site lay to the south of Mastusia.
2589 Now called Kilidbahr. Near this place the Spartans were defeated by the Athenians, who erected a trophy near the tomb of Hecuba.
2590 In the present Chapter; where he says that the distance from Byzantium to Dyrrhachium is 711 miles. See p. 305.
2591 Αἲξ, “a goat.” Other authors give other derivations for the name of Ægean,—from the town of Ægæ in Eubœa, or from Ægeus, the father of Theseus, who threw himself into it; or from Ægæa, a queen of the Amazons, who perished there; or from Ægæon, a god of the sea; or from the Greek αἰγὶς, “a squall,” on account of its storms.
2594 Now Corfu. Of its city of Corcyra only a few ruins now exist.
2595 There are still some remains of it near the village called Cassopo.
2596 Now Fano, or Merlere.
2597 Now Paxo and Antipaxo.
2598 On the contrary, they lie at the other end of the isle of Corcyra. Some of them are mere rocks, and cannot be distinguished by their ancient names. The present names of four are Sametraki, Diaplo, Boaia, and the Isle of Ulysses.
2599 Now Capo Drasti.
2600 Now Capo Levkimo. The islands are those of Santo Niccolo.
2601 Or Islands of the Teleboans.
2602 These three seem to be those now called Magnisi, Kalamota, and Kastus. These lie facing the promontory of Leucadia, the others opposite Ætolia.
2603 Opposite Acarnania: by the Venetians they were called the Islands of Kurtzolari. Some of them are cultivated, others again are mere rocks.
2604 Now called Cephallenia.
2605 Now Zante.
2606 Now Thiaki, or Cefalogna Piccola—Little Cephallenia.
2607 The general opinion is, that Strabo is right in identifying this island with one of the Echinades; but it seems impossible now to say which of them was so called.
2608 Sometimes confounded with Cephallenia; but, according to Virgil and Mela, as well as Pliny, they were different islands.
2609 Crocylæa was a town of Acarnania, referred to by Homer; and there was a district of Ithaca called Crocylcium. Pliny is probably in error in mentioning Crocyle as an island.
2610 Or the “Black Island;” probably from its thick foliage.
2611 Pale, Cranii, and Proni.
2612 So called from its fir-trees. It now has the name of Scopo.
2613 Now Monte Stefano.
2615 Supposed by some writers to be the same with the rocky isle now called Dyscallio. Though mentioned by Homer, its existence was disputed by many of the ancient commentators.
2616 The modern Strivali and Stamphane.
2617 The present Guardiania, according to Lapie.
2618 According to Ansart, these were Prote, now Prodano, and Sphagia, formerly Sphacteria, before Pylos, now called Zonchio, or Old Navarino; the third being perhaps the isle of Bechli, in the Bay of Navarino.
2619 Now called Sapienza, Santa Maria, and Cabrera.
2620 Venetico and Formignes are the names of two of them.
2621 Now Servi.
2622 The modern Cerigo.
2623 It is much further from the Cape of Malea or Santo Angelo than the distance here mentioned. It derived its name of Porphyris from the purple fishery established here by the Phœnicians.
2624 The modern Isle of Port Tolon. Irine is the present Hipsyli according to Leake, who also identifies Ephyre with Spetzia.
2625 At the south of Argolis.
2626 The modern Dhoko, according to Leake. Some authorities think that Tiparenus, and not Ephyre, is the modern Spetzia.
2627 Leake thinks that Colonis and Hydreia, now called Hydra, were the same island; but Kiepert thinks it the same as the small island to the south of Spetzia.
2628 Now Poros.
2629 These are the islands now called Moni Jorench, Kophinidia, and San Giorgio d’Arbora. It is perhaps impossible to identify them, except that Belbina is generally supposed to be the island of San Giorgio.
2630 Now Kyra.
2631 The modern Angistri.
2632 Which name, or Eghina, it still retains.
2634 Probably the modern Laoussa, one of this group.
2635 By Brotier said to be the modern Pentenesia. The other islands here mentioned seem not to have been identified.
2636 Now Cerigotto.
2637 Dalechamps suggests Hesperus.
2638 The island “of the Blessed.”
2639 Now Capo Salomon.
2640 From the Greek κριοῦ μέτωπον, “the ram’s forehead”; now called Capo Crio.
2641 Also called Elæa. Pococke speaks of it as a promontory called Chaule-burnau.
2642 Hardouin calls it Chisamo.
2643 The modern Khania. The quince derived its Latin name, “Malum Cydonium,” from this district, to which it was indigenous. From its Latin name it was called melicotone by the writers of the Elizabethan period.
2644 Now Minolo, according to Hardouin.
2645 The port of Apteron, or Aptera, which Mr. Pashley supposes to be denoted by the ruins of Palæokastro; he also thinks that its port was at or near the modern Kalyres.
2646 Now La Suda, according to Hardouin, who says that Rhithymna is called Retimo; Panormus, Panormo; and Cytæum, Setia.
2647 Supposed by Ansart to have stood in the vicinity of the modern city of Candia.
2648 Strabo says that it stood on the narrowest part of the island, opposite Minoa. Vestiges of it have been found at the Kastéle of Hierapetra. Its foundation was ascribed to the Corybantes.
2649 Now Lionda.
2650 Next to Cnossus in splendour and importance. Mr. Pashley places its site near the modern Haghius Dheka, the place of the martyrdom of the ten Saints, according to tradition, in the Decian persecution.
2651 It has been remarked, that Pliny is mistaken here if he intends to enumerate Cnossus among the towns of the interior of Crete. The only remains of this capital of Crete, situate on the north of the island, are those seen at Makro-Teikho, or the “Long Walls,” so called from the masses of Roman brick-work there seen.
2652 Though an inland town, it probably stood in the vicinity of the headland or promontory of the same name, which is now called Kavo Stavro. Many of these names are utterly unknown.
2653 One of the most important towns of Crete, on the N.W. slope of Mount Ida, about fifty stadia from the port of Astale. Mr. Pashley says that some remains probably of this place are still to be seen on a hill near a place called Eletherna, five miles south of the great convent of Arkadhi.
2654 The loftiest point of the mountain-range that traverses the island of Crete from west to east. Its head is covered with snow. The modern name is Psiloriti, looking down on the plain of Mesara. The word Ida is supposed to mean a mountain in which mines are worked, and the Idæi Dactyli of Crete were probably among the first workers in iron and bronze. The position of Mount Cadistus, belonging to the range of White Mountains, has been fixed by Hoeck at Cape Spadha, the most northerly point of the island. It is thought that Pliny and Solinus are in error in speaking of Cadistus and Dictynnæus as separate peaks, these being, both of them, names of the mountain of which the cape was formed; the latter name having been given in later times, from the worship and temple there of Dictynna.
2655 Now Grabusa, the N.W. promontory of Crete.
2656 Now Ras-al-Sem, or Cape Rasat, in Africa. The distance, according to Brotier, is in reality about 225 miles.
2657 Now Skarpanto.
2658 According to Hardouin, all of these are mere rocks rather than islands.
2659 The modern Haghios Theodhoros.
2660 According to Hoeck, they are now called Turlure.
2661 Now called Standiu.
2662 Now Capo Xacro, on the east, though Cape Salomon, further north, has been suggested. In the latter case, the Grandes islands would correspond with Onisia and Leuce, mentioned by Pliny.
2663 Now Gaidurognissa. None of the other islands here mentioned seem to have been identified.
2664 Between Eubœa and Locris. They are now called Ponticonesi.
2665 Now Koluri. It is memorable for the naval battle fought off its coast, when Xerxes was defeated by the Greeks, B.C. 480.
2666 Now called Lypsokutali.
2667 Now Makronisi, or “the Long Island.” Its ancient name was also Macris. Strabo identifies it with the Homeric Cranaë, to which Paris fled with Helen.
2668 Usually called Cea, one of the Cyclades, about thirteen miles S.E. of Sunium. Its modern name is Zea. Iulis was the most important town, and the birth-place of the poets Simonides and Bacchylides, of the sophist Prodicus, the physician Erasistratus, and the Peripatetic philosopher Ariston. Extensive remains of it still exist.
2669 There are considerable remains of this town, called by the inhabitants Stais Palais.
2670 Or Coresia. It was the harbour of Iulis, to which place we learn from Strabo that its inhabitants were transferred.
2671 On the S.W. side of the island. Its ruins are inconsiderable, but retain their ancient name.
2672 Now called Eubœa, as also Egripo, or Negropont,—a corruption of the former word and “pont,” “a bridge.”
2673 Hardouin speaks of this as existing in his time, 1670, and being 250 feet in length. It is supposed to have been first constructed about B.C. 411, for the purpose of uninterrupted communication with Bœotia.
2674 Now Capo Mandili.
2675 Now Kavo Doro, or Xylofago.
2676 Now Lithadha, with a mountain 2837 feet above the sea.
2677 These measurements are not exactly correct. The length from north to south is about ninety miles; the extreme breadth across, thirty, and in one part, not more than four miles.
2678 Still extant in the time of Strabo, who speaks of it as an inconsiderable place.
2679 Its site is now called Lipso. It contained warm baths sacred to Hercules, and used by the Dictator Sylla. They are still to be seen.
2680 Now Egripo, or Negropont, having given name to the rest of the island. The Euripus is here only forty yards across, being crossed by a bridge, partly of stone, partly of wood. The poet Lycophron and the orator Isæus were natives of this place, and Aristotle died here.
2681 Near the promontory of that name, now Capo Mandili. In the town there was a famous temple of Poseidon, or Neptune. According to Hardouin, the modern name is Iastura.
2682 One of the most powerful cities of Eubœa. It was destroyed by the Persians under Darius, and a new town was built to the south of the old one. New Eretria stood, according to Leake, at the modern Kastri, and old Eretria in the neighbourhood of Vathy. The tragic poet Achæus, a contemporary of Æschylus, was born here; and a school of philosophy was founded at this place by Menedemus, a disciple of Plato.
2683 Now Karysto, on the south of the island, at the foot of Mount Ocha, upon which are supposed to have been its quarries of marble. There are but few remains of the ancient city. The historian Antigonus, the comic poet Apollodorus, and the physician Diocles, were natives of this place.
2684 Probably on the promontory of the same name. It was off this coast that the Greek fleet engaged that of Xerxes, B.C. 480.
2685 There were tame fish kept in this fountain; and its waters were sometimes disturbed by volcanic agency. Leake says that it has now totally disappeared.
2686 From the fact of its producing copper, and of its being in shape long and narrow.
2687 Strabo remarks, that Homer calls its inhabitants Abantes, while he gives to the island the name of Eubœa. The poets say that it took its name from the cow (Βοῦς) Io, who gave birth to Epaphus on this island.
2688 Hardouin remarks here, that Pliny, Strabo, Mela, and Pausanias use the term “Myrtoan Sea,” as meaning that portion of it which lies between Crete and Attica, while Ptolemy so calls the sea which lies off the coast of Caria.
2689 Now called Spitilus, and the group of Micronisia, or “Little Islands,” according to Hardouin.
2690 From κύκλος, “a circle.”
2691 Now Andro. It gives name to one of the comedies of Terence. The ruins of the ancient city were found by the German traveller Ross, who has published a hymn to Isis, in hexameter verse, which he discovered here. It was famous for its wines.
2692 Now Tino.
2693 From its abounding in snakes (ὄφεις) and scorpions.
2694 Now Mycono, south-east of Tenos and east of Delos. It was famous in ancient mythology as one of the places where Hercules was said to have defeated the Giants. It was also remarkable for the great proportion of bald persons among its inhabitants.
2695 So called from its resemblance to two breasts, μαζοι.
2696 Wheeler says that the distance is but three miles; Tournefort, six.
2697 Once famous for its gold and silver mines, but equally notorious for the bad character of its people. It is now called Siphno.
2698 Now Serpho, lying between Cythnos and Siphnus.
2699 Now Fermina, according to Hardouin.
2700 Between Ceos and Seriphus. It is now called Thermia. Cydias the painter was born here, and it was famous for its cheeses. Its modern name is derived from its hot springs, which are much frequented.
2701 Still called Delos; and, though so celebrated, nothing more than a mere rock, five miles in circumference.
2702 That is, according to Varro, whose statement is ridiculed by Seneca. Some of the editors, however, punctuate this passage differently, making it to mean, “the only island that has never experienced an earthquake. Mucianus however has informed us, that down to the time of M. Varro, it has been twice so visited.”
2703 From its then becoming δῆλος, “plain,” or “manifest.” It was after the fall of Corinth that Delos became so famous for its commerce. Its bronze was in great request.
2704 From ὄρτυξ, “a quail”; the legend being, that Latona was changed into that bird by Jupiter, in order to effect her escape thither from the anger of Juno. Its name of Asteria was derived from ἄστρον, “a star,” either in consequence of its being devoted to the worship of the great luminary Apollo, or of its being considered by the gods the star of the earth. It was also called Lagia, from λαγὼς, “a hare,” that animal abounding there; and Cynæthus, from κύων, “a dog,” it being famous for its hounds.
2705 A bare granite rock, not more than 500 feet in height. The island is now a mass of ruins; a great part of its remains having been carried away in the middle ages to Venice and Constantinople.
2706 Divided by a strait of four stadia in width from Delos. Nicias connected the two islands by a bridge. Its name of Celadussa was said to be derived from the noise of the waves, κέλαδος, and of Artemite, from Artemis, or Diana.
2707 Now Syra; famous for its wine and corn.
2708 Now Antiparos; famous for its stalactite grotto, which is not mentioned by the ancient writers.
2709 Now Paro; south of Delos and west of Naxos. The ruins of its town are still to be seen at the modern Paroikia. The Parian Chronicle, inscribed on marble, and containing a chronicle of Grecian history from Cecrops, B.C. 1582, to B.C. 264, was found here. It is preserved at Oxford.
2710 Chiefly obtained from a mountain called Marpessa.
2711 Now Naxia, famous both in ancient and modern times for its remarkable fertility.
2712 From στρογγύλος, “round,” its shape being somewhat inclined to circular, though by Eustathius it is compared to the shape of a vine-leaf. It is commonly called Dia by the poets. Tournefort says that it is distant forty miles from Delos.
2713 From Διόνυσος, or Bacchus, the god of wine.
2714 Or “Fine City.” It took its other name from the fact of its rivalling the fertility of Sicily.
2715 According to Brotier, the Jesuit Babin, on visiting it, found its circumference estimated at thirty-six miles only.
2716 So called from lying scattered at random as it were, σπορὰς “scattered.”
2717 Helene is supposed to be the modern Pira; Phacussa, Fecussa; Nicasia, Rachia; Schinussa, Schinusa; and Pholegandros, Policandro.
2718 Now Nikaria, to the west of Samos. According to tradition, it derived its name from Icarus, the son of Dædalus, who was believed to have fallen into the sea in its vicinity.
2719 Its length is not so great as is here mentioned by Pliny. Its towns were Drepanum, or Dracanum, Œnoë, and Isti.
2720 The first two names are from the Greek, in allusion to its long, narrow shape, and the last bears reference to the fact of its shores abounding in fish.
2721 Now Scyro, east of Eubœa, and one of the Sporades. Here Achilles was said to have been concealed by his mother Thetis, in woman’s attire.
2722 Now Nio, one of the Sporades, inaccurately called by Stephanus one of the Cyclades. The modern town is built on the site of the ancient one, of which there are some remains. It was said that Homer died here, on his voyage from Smyrna to Athens, and that his mother, Clymene, was a native of this island. In 1773, Van Krienen, a Dutch nobleman, asserted that he had discovered the tomb of Homer here, with certain inscriptions relative to him; but they have been generally regarded by the learned as forgeries. Odia and Oletandros seem not to have been identified.
2723 Now called Gioura, or Jura. It was little better than a barren rock, though inhabited; but so notorious for its poverty, that its mice were said to be able to gnaw through iron. It was used as a place of banishment under the Roman emperors, whence the line of Juvenal, i. 73—
“Dare some deed deserving of the little Gyara and the gaol.” It is now uninhabited, except by a few shepherds in the summer.
2724 Now Telos, or Piskopi, a small island in the Carpathian Sea, and one of the Sporades. It lies off the coast of Caria. Syrnos appears not to have been identified.
2725 Near Naxos. Virgil calls it ‘viridis,’ or ‘green,’ which Servius explains by the colour of its marble. Like Gyara, it was used as a place of banishment under the Roman Empire. In C. 22, Pliny has mentioned Cynæthus as one of the names of Delos.
2726 Now Patmo, one of the Sporades, and west of the Promontory of Posidium, in Caria. To this place St. John was banished, and here he wrote the Apocalypse.
2727 A group between Icaria and Samos. They are now called Phurni and Krusi.
2728 One of the Sporades, now Lebitha.
2729 Now Lero. Its inhabitants were of Milesian origin, and of indifferent character. In its temple of Artemis, the sisters of Meleager were said to have been changed into guinea-fowls. It was opposite the coast of Caria.
2730 Now Zinari, N.E. of Amorgos. The artichoke (called κίναρα in Greek) is said to have given name to it.
2731 Now Sikino; between Pholegandros and Ios.
2732 So called, according to Stephanus, from its cultivation of the vine and produce of wine, οἶνος. It was situate between Pholegandros and Ios. It was said to have had the name of Sicinus from a son of Thoas and Œnoë. Hieracia seems to be unknown.
2733 Still known by that name, and lying between Carpathus and Crete. The ruins of the ancient town of Casos are still to be seen at the village of Polin. It is mentioned by Homer.
2734 Now Kimoli, one of the Cyclades, between Siphnos and Melos. It took its name of Echinussa from the ‘Echinus,’ or Sea-urchin, of which various fossil specimens are still found on the coast; but nowhere else in these islands, except the opposite coast of Melos. There are considerable ruins of its ancient town.
2735 Now Milo, the most westerly of the Cyclades. It is remarkable for its extreme fertility. Its town, which, according to most authorities, was called Byblis, was situate on the north of the island.
2736 Ansart remarks, that our author is mistaken in this assertion, for not only are many others of these islands more circular in form, but even that of Kimolo, which stands next to it.
2737 Now Amorgo, S.E. of Naxos. It was the birth-place of the Iambic poet Simonides. It is noted for its fertility. Under the Roman emperors, it was used as a place of banishment.
2738 Now Polybos, or Antimelos, an uninhabited island near Melos. Phyle seems not to have been identified.
2739 Now Santorin, south of the island of Ios. The tradition was, that it was formed from a clod of earth, thrown from the ship Argo. It is evidently of volcanic origin, and is covered with pumice-stone. It was colonized by Lacedæmonians and Minyans of Lemnos, under the Spartan Theras, who gave his name to the island.
2740 A small island to the west of Thera, still known by the same name.
2741 In Lapie’s map, Ascania is set down as the present Christiana.
2742 Now Anaphe, Namfi, or Namphio, one of the Sporades. It was celebrated for the temple of Apollo Ægletes, the foundation of which was ascribed to the Argonauts, and of which considerable remains still exist. It abounds in partridges, as it did also in ancient times.
2743 Now Astropalæa, or Stamphalia. By Strabo it is called one of the Sporades, by Stephanus one of the Cyclades. It probably was favoured by the Romans for the excellence and importance of its harbours. From Hegesander we learn that it was famous for its hares, and Pliny tells us, in B. viii. c. 59, that its mussels were (as they still are) very celebrated.
2744 None of these islands can be now identified, except perhaps Chalcia, also mentioned by Strabo, and now known as Karki.
2745 Now Kalymno, the principal island of the group, by Homer called Calydne. According to most of the editions, Pliny mentions here Calydna and Calymna, making this island, which had those two names, into two islands. Although Pliny here mentions only the town of Coös, still, in B. v. c. 36, he speaks of three others, Notium, Nisyrus, and Mendeterus. There are still some remains of antiquity to be seen here.
2746 Or Carpathus, now Skarpanto. It gave name to the sea between Crete and Rhodes.
2747 It still preserves its ancient name, and presents some interesting remains of antiquity.
2748 Brotier says that the distance is really fifty-two miles.
2749 So called from the town of Petalia, on the mainland. Ansart says that their present name is Spili.
2750 Now Talanti, giving name to the Channel of Talanti.
2752 Ansart suggests that this may possibly be the small island now called Agios Nicolaos.