BOOK IV. XI. 48-51 



and Cissa lying on the Goat's River ; and tliere is now 

 Resisthos, 22 miles from the colony of Apros, 

 opposite to the colony of Parium. Also the 

 Dardanelles, which as we have said " divide Em-ope 

 from Asia by a space not quite a mile across, have 

 four cities facing one another on the opposite sides, 

 GalHpoH and lalova in Kurope and Lamsaki and 

 Avido in Asia. Then on GalUpoU there is the pro- 

 montory of Capo Helles opposite to Jeni-Hisari, on 

 the slanting side of which is the Bitch's Tomb (the 

 name givcn to the funeral mound of Hccuba), the 

 naval station of the Greeks in the Trojan war, and a 

 tower, the shrine of Protesilaus, and at the point 

 of the peninsula, which is caUed AeoUum, the town of 

 Elaeus. Then as you make for the Gulf of Enos 

 you have the harbours of Coelos * and Panormus and 

 Cardia above mentioned. 



This rounds off the third Gulf of Europe. The 

 mountains of Thrace, beside those already mentioned, 

 are Edonus, Gygemeros, Meritus and Melam^ihyUus ; 

 the rivers are the Bargus and the Syrmus, which fall 

 into the Maritza. The length of Maccdonia, Thrace 

 and the Hellespont has been mentioned previously § -16. 

 (some make it 720 miles) ; the breadth is 38i miles. 



The Aegean Sea takes its name from an island, or Aegean Sea. 

 more truly a rock suddenly springing out of the middle 

 of the sea, between Tenos and Chios, namcd Aex 

 from its resemblance to a she-goat — ai^ being the 

 Greek word for the animal. In sailing from Achaia 

 to Antandro, this rock is sighted on the starboard 

 side, and it is a sinister threat of disaster. One 

 section of the Aegean is distinguished as the Myrtoan 

 Sea ; it takes its name frorn the small island of Myrtos 

 sighted as you sail from Geraestus in the direction of 



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