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from Cvtliera, aud of twenty-five from Phalasarna, a city 

 of Crete. 



CHAP. 20. — CEETE. 



Crete itself lies from east to west, the one side facing the 

 south, the other the north, and is known to fame by the 

 renown of its hundred cities. Dosiades says, that it took 

 its name from the nymph Crete, tlie daughter of Hesperides ^ ; 

 Anaximander,from a king of the Curetes, Philistides of Mallus 

 *#**#. -^yl^ile Crates says that it was at first called Aeria, 

 and after that Curetis ; and some have been of opinion 

 that it had the name of Macaron"- from the serenity of its 

 climate. In breadtli it nowhere exceeds fifty miles, being 

 widest about the middle. In length, however, it is full 270 

 miles, and 589 in circumference, forming a bend towards 

 the Cretan Sea, which takes its name from it. At its 

 eastern extremity is the Promontory of Sammonium^, facing 

 llhodes, wliile towards tlie west it throws out that of Criu- 

 metopon**, in the direction of Cyrene. 



The more remarkable cities of Crete are, Phalasarna, Eta^a*, 

 Cisamon'^, Pergamum, Cydonia^, Minoium^, Apteron^, Panto- 

 matrium, Amphimalla^", Rhithymna, Panormus, Cytaum, A- 

 pollonia, Matium'\ lleraclea, Miletos, Ampelos, Kierapytna^^, 



^ Daleclmmps suggests Hesperus. 



2 The island " of the Blessed." 3 jfow Capo Salomon. 



^ Frora the Greek Kpiov ^erujirov, "the ram'a forehead" ; now called 

 Capo Crio. 



^ Also called Elaa. Pococke speaks of it as a promontory called 

 Chaule-burnau. ^ Ilardoidn calls it Chisamo. 



7 The modem Kliania, The quince derived its Latui name, "Malum 

 Cydoniiun," from this district, to Avhich it was indigenous. From its 

 Latin name it was called melicototie bv the writers of the Elizabellian 

 period. ^ Now Minolo, according to llardouin. 



^ The port of Apteron, or Aptera, wliich Mr. Pashlev supjioses to be 

 denoted by the ruins of Palteokastro ; he also thinks that its port was 

 at or near the modern Kalyres. 



^*' Now La 8uda, aceordhig to llardouin, who says that llliithyuma is 

 called Rctimo; Panormus, Panormo ; and Cytieum, Set la. 



^' Sui)posed by Ansart to iiave stood in the vicinity uf tlie modem city 

 of Candia. 



'- Strabo says that it stood on the nan-owest part of the island, opposite 

 Minoa. Vestiges of it have been found at the Kastele of Jlierapetra. 

 Its foundation was ascribed to the Corybantcs. 



