482 plot's natural history. [Book Y. 



islands known as the Clides\ lying before the promontory 

 which faces Syria ; and again at tlie end of the other cape 

 is Stiria: over against Neapaphos is Hierocepia^ and op- 

 posite to Salamis are the Salaminise. 



In the Lycian Sea are the islands of lUyris, Telendos, 

 and Attelebussa^ the three barren isles called Cypri^, and 

 Dionysia, formerly called Caretha. Opposite to the Pro- 

 montory of Taurus are the Chelidom^e^ as many in num- 

 ber, and extremely dangerous to mariners. Further on we 

 find Leucolla with its town, the Pactyse^ Lasia, Nymphais, 

 Maoris, and Megista, the city on which last no longer exists. 

 After these there are many that are not worthy of notice. 

 Opposite, however, to Cape Chimserais Dolichiste^ Choerogy- 

 lion, Crambussa«, Ehoge^ Enagora, eight miles m circum- 

 ference, the two islands of Dsedala'°, the three of Cr^a , 



1 Or Cleides, meaning the " Keys." This was a group of smaU islands 

 lying to the north-east of Cyprus. The name of the islands was after- 

 wards transferred by some geographer to the Cape which Phny above 

 calls Dinee, and others Dinaretum. 2 Cape Acamas, now Pilano. 



3 Or the " Sacred Garden." The names of this and the Salamim® do 

 not appear to be known to the modern geographers. 



4 This is identified by Beaufort with the islet called Boeshat, which is 

 separated by a narrow channel from the Lycian shore. The others do 

 not seem to have been identified. Attelebussa is supposed to take its 

 name from a kind of destructive grasshopper without wmgs, caUed by 

 the Greeks arreXe^os. 



5 Situate oflF the commencement of the sea-coast of Pamphyha, on tne 

 borders of Lycia. Beaufort speaks of them as five m number ; he chd 

 not meet with any of the dangers of the navigation here mentioned by 

 Phny. The Greeks still caU them Chehdonise, and the Itahan sailors 

 Cehdoni, which the Turks have corrupted into Shehdan. 



6 Hardouin supposes these four islands to be the names of the group 

 forming the Pacty®. The names given appear to signify, the "Wild 

 or « Kough Islands," the " Isle of the Nymphs," the " Long Island, and 

 the " Greatest Island." They were ofi" the coast of Lycia, and seeni to 

 have belonged to the Ehodians. The modem name of Megista is E.a- 

 stelorizo, according to Ansart. r .^ • 



7 Or Dohche, the " Long Island," in the Lycian Sea, west ot the rums 

 of Myra. Its modern name is Kakava. It is now umnhabited. _ 



8 Still known as Grambousa, a smaU island ofi* the east coast of Lycia. 

 There seems to have been another of the same name off the Lycian coast. 



9 An island off the coast of Lycia. r -r^ j i 



10 Hardouin thinks that they were opposite to the city of Dsedala on 

 the coast of Caria. 



" Off the city of Crya, probably, in Caria. 



