BOOK IV. V. 16-18 



towns are Kimaros, Amyclae, Chitries, Levtros, and 

 inland Sparta, Therapne, the sites of the former 

 Cardamyle, Pitane and Anthea, the place called " 

 Thyrea, Gerania, the mountain range of Pente 

 Dactyli, the river Niris, the Gulf of Scutari, the town 

 of Psamathus, the Gulf of Gytheum called from the 

 town of that name, from which is the safest crossing 

 to the island of Crete. All these places are bounded 

 by the promontory of Capo Sant' Angelo. 



The bay that comes next, extending to Capo SkyH, Ouif of 

 is called the Gulf of Nauplia ; it is 50 miles across "^^^"^' 

 and 162 miles round. The towns on it are Boea, 

 Epidaurus surnamed Limera, Zarax, and the port 

 of Cyphanta. The rivers are the Banitza and the 

 Kephalari, between which hes Argos surnamed 

 llippium,* above the place called Lerne, two miles 

 from the sea, and nine miles further on Mycenae and 

 the traditional site of Tiryns and the place called 

 Mantinea. The mountains are Malvouni, Fuka, 

 Asterion, Parparus and others numbering eleven ; 

 the springs, Niobe, Amymone and Psamathe. 



From Capo Skyli to the Isthmus of Corinth is 80 Saronie 

 miles. The towns are Hermione, Troezen, Cory- 

 phasium and Argos, sometimes called Inachian Argos 

 and sometimes Dipsian ; then comes the harbour of 

 Schoenitas, and the Saronic Gulf,'^ formerly encircled 

 with oak woods from which it takes its name, this 

 being the old Greek word for an oak.*^ On it is the 

 town of Epidaurus famous for its shrine of Aescula- 

 pius ; the promontory of Capo Franco ; the ports of 

 Anthedus and Bucephalus, and that of Cenchreae 

 mentioned above, on the south side of the Isthmus, 

 with the temple of Poseidon, famous for the Isthmian 

 Games celebrated there every four' years. 



