Cliap. 22.] ACCOUNT OF COUITTEIES, ETC. 317 



(opposite which, on the mainland, is Aulis), Geraestus*, 

 Eretria"^, Carystiis^, Oritaniim, and xVrtemisium\ Here are 

 also the Fountain of Aretluisa^ the river Lelantus, and the 

 warm springs known as Ellopiae ; it is still better known, 

 liowever, for the marble of Carystus. This island used 

 fonnerly to be called Chalcodontis and Macris", as we learn 

 from Dionysius and Ephorus ; according to Aristides, Macra ; 

 also, as Callidemus says, Chalcis, because copper was first 

 discovered here. Mensechmus says that it was called 

 Abantias^, and the poets generally give it the name of 

 Asopis. 



CHAP. 22. — THE CTCLADES. 



Beyond Euboea, and out in the Myrtoan^ Sea, are numerous 

 other islands ; but those more especially famous are, Glau- 



bridge, partly of stone, partly of wood. The poet Lvcophron and the 

 orator Isoeus were natives of this place, and Ai'istotle died here. 



^ Near the promontory of that name, now Capo jMandili. In the 

 town there was a famous temple of Poseidon, or Neptune. According 

 to Hardouin, the modern name is lastura. 



2 One of the most powerful cities of Euboea. It was destroyed by the 

 Persians vuidcr Darius, and a new tovm was built to the soutli of tlie old 

 one. New Eretria stood, according to Leake, at the modern Kastri, and 

 old Eretria in the neighbourhood of Vathy. The tragic poet Aeha?us, a 

 contemporary of ^Esehylus, was born here ; and a school of philosoplay 

 was founded at this place by Mencdemus, a disciple of Plato. 



3 Now Karysto, on the south of the island, at the foot of Monnt 

 Ocha, upon which are supposed to have been its quarries of marble. 

 There are but few remains of the ancient city. The liij;torian Antigonus, 

 the comic poet Apollodorus, and the physician Diodes, were natives of 

 this place. 



■* Probably on the promontory of the same name. It was off this 

 coast that the Greek fleet engaged that of Xerxes, B.C. -180. 



^ 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. 



s From the fact of its producing copper, and of its being in shape long 

 and narrow. 



7 Strabo remarks, that Homer calls its inhabitants Abantea, while he 

 gives to the island the name of Euboea. The poets say tliat it took its 

 name from the cow (Boi)s) lo, who gave birth to Epaphus on this 

 island. 



8 Hardouin remarks here, that Pliny, Strabo, Mela, and Pausanias use 

 tlio term " Myrtoan Sea," as meaning that portion of it which lies 

 between Crete and Attica, while Ptolemy so calls the sea wliich hes olf 

 the coast of Caria. 



