BOOK IV. VI. 22-vii. 24 



Domitius Nero." The Peloponnese measures 190 

 miles across from Cape Malea to the town of Vostitza 

 on the Gulf of Corinth, and in the other direction 125 

 miles from Ehs to Epidauros and 68 miles from 

 Olympia through Arcadia to Argos. (The distance 

 between Olympia and Pylos has been given already.') 

 Nature has compensated for the inroads of the sea 

 by the mountainous character of the entire region, 

 there being 76 peaks in all. 



\TI. At the narrow part of the Isthmus begins Aittca, 

 Hellas, called in our language Greece. In this the 

 first region is Attica, named in antiquity Acte. It 

 touches thelsthmus with thepart of it namedMegaris, 

 from Megara, the colony on the opposite side of the 

 Isthmus from Pagae. These two towns are situated 

 where the Peloponnese projects, and stand on either 

 side of the Isthmus, as it were on the shoulders of 

 Hellas, Pagae and also Aegosthena "^ being assigned 

 to the jurisdiction of Megara. On the coast are the 

 harbour of Porto Cocosi, the towns Leandra and 

 Cremmyon, the Scironian Rocks ^ six miles in length, 

 Gerania, Megara and Levsina ; formerly there 

 were also Oenoe and Probahnthos. There now are 

 the harbours of Piraeus and Phaleron, 55 miles from 

 the Isthmus, and joined by wall to Athens 5 miles 

 away. Athens is a free city, and requires no further 

 advertisement here as her celebrity is more than 

 ainple. In Attica are the springs of Cephisia, 

 Larine, and the Nine Wells of CalHrrhoe, and the 

 mountains of Brilessus,' Aegialeus, Icarius, Hymettus 



* Just north of Pagae at the east end of the Gulf of Corinth. 

 ' Now Kaki Scala. 



* Believed to be another name for Pentelicus, now Mendeii, 

 famous for its marble quarries. 



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