Chap. 39,] ACCOTJKT OF COTTNTEIES, ETC. 487 



Tvitli a city of that name, Cercire, Halone\ Commone, 

 llletia, Lepria and Eliesperia, Procusae, BolbuLr, Phana?, 

 Priapos, Syce, Melaue, JEnare, Sidiisa, Pele, Drymusa*, 

 Anhydros, Scopelos^, Sycnssa, Marathussa, Psile, Perirreusa, 

 and many others of no note. In the main sea lies the 

 celebrated island of Teos, with a city"* of that name, seventy- 

 o^e miles and a half distant from Chios, and the same from 

 the Erythrcne. 



In the vicinity of Smyrna are the Peristerides*, Carteria, 

 Alopece, Elsenssa, Bachina, Pystira, Crommyonnesos, and 

 Megale^. Facing Troas there are the Ascanire, and the 

 three islands called Plateae. "We find also the Lamiiie, the 

 two islands called Plitanioe, Plate, Scopelos, Getone, Arthe- 

 don, CoelcT, Lagussa?, and Didymge. 



CHAP. 39. LESBOS. 



But Lesbos', distant from Chios sixty-five miles, is the 

 most celebrated of them all. It was formerly called Himerte, 

 Lasia, Pelasgia, ^gira, ^thiope, and Macaria, and is 

 famous for its nine cities. Of these, however, that of Pyrrha 

 has been swallowed up by the sea, Arisbe^ has perished by 

 an earthquake, and 5lethymna is now united to Antissa** ; 

 these lie in the vicinity of nine cities of Asia, along a 

 coast of thirty-seven miles. The towns of Agamede and 



vicinity were forty in number ; of which Phny here gives the names of 

 two-and-twenty. ^ South of Proconncsus ; now called Aloni. 



* Near the city of Clazomenae. It is now called Vourla, accorcUng 

 to Ansart. ^ Kow Koiitali, according to Ansart. 



* We learn from Strabo and other writers, tliat tliis city was on a ]icn- 

 insiila, and that it stood on the southern side of tlie isthnuis, coiniecting 

 Mount Mhnas with the mainland of Lydia. It was the birth-place of 

 Anacreon and Ilccataeus. 



* Or the " Dove Islands ;" probably from the multitude of those birds 

 found on those islands. 



^ Now called Antigona, according to Ansart. 



' Now Mitylene, or Metelin. 



^ We find it also stated by Herodotus, that this island was destroyed 

 by the Methymnwans. The cities of Mitylene, Melhynma, Erebus, 

 Pyrrha, Antissa, and Arisbe, originally formed the vEolian HexapoUs, 

 or Confederation of Six Cities. 



^ The ruins found by Pocoeke at Calas Limneonas, ncirtli-east of Capo 

 Sigi'i, may be those of Antissa. This j)laee was the bhth-phice of Ter- 

 pander, the mveutor of the seven- stringed lyre. 



