Cliap. 37.] Acco^^'T or countries, etc. 485 



Meropis, as Dionysius tells us ; and, after that, iN'ympliaea. 

 In this island there is jNIoiint Prion. iS^isyros\ formerly 

 called PorT)hyris, is supposed to have been severed from tlie 

 island of Cos. AVe next come to the island of Caryanda'-^, 

 •VNTith a city of that name, and that of Pidosus^, not far 

 from Halicarnassus. In the Gulf of Ceramieus we also find 

 Priaponnesos^, Hipponnesos, Psyra, Mya,Lampsa, JEmyndus, 

 Passala, Crusa, Pinnicussa, Sepiussa^, and Melano. At a 

 short distance from the mainland is an island which bears 

 the name of Cinaedopolis, from the circumstance that King 

 Alexander left behind there certain persons of a most 

 disgraceful character. 



CHAP. 37. — SAMOS. 



Tlie coast of Ionia has the islands of Trageae, Corseae^, 

 and Icaros, which has been previously" mentioned ; Lade**, 

 formerly called Late ; and, among others of no note, the two 

 Camelida)^, in the vicinity of Miletus ; and the three Ti'o- 

 giliae''^, near Mycale, consisting of Philion, Argennon, and 

 Sandalion. There is Samos also, a free'' it^land, eighty-seven 

 miles in circumference, or, according to Isidorus, 100: Ari- 

 stotle tells us, that it was at first called Parthenia'^, after 



^ ^Tiich has been previously mentioned in this Chapter. 



2 In C. 29, PUny has mentioned a Caryanda on the n.ainland. It is 

 probable that there was a town on the maiiiland and another in the 

 island of the same name. Leake says, that there can be Uttle doubt that 

 the large peninsula, towards the west end of whicli is the fine harbour 

 called by the Turks Pasha Limani, is the ancient island of Caryanda, now 

 joined to the mainland by a narrow sandy istlunus. 



3 The island of Hyali, near the harbour of MefTi, on the coast of 

 Caria, aceorchng to Dupinet. 



■* Probably so called from the worship of the god Priapus there. 

 5 Few, if any, of these islets can now be recognized. S/]iiussa was 

 probably so called from the abundance of the sepia, or cutlle-llsh, there. 

 ^ Over against the isle of Samos. ^ 13. iv. c. 23. 



8 Near the city of Miletus. 



9 So called from their resemblance to camels. 



^'^ Lying before the Promontory of Trogilium, mentioned in C. 31. 



^^ Augustus gave their liberty to tlie Sainians, The island is still 

 called by the Greeks Samo, and by the Turks Su^am Adassi. 



^2 The "Virgin's Island," if so called after Juno, as some say; but 

 according to Strabo, it received its name from tlie river Partheniua. 



