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Macedonia, not far from Carystus in Euboea. The 

 Romans call all these seas by two names, the Mace- 

 donian Sea wherever it touches Macedonia or 

 Thrace and the Grecian Sea where it washes the 

 coast of Greece ; while the Greeks divide the lonian 

 Sea too into the Sicihan and the Cretan, named from 

 the islands, and also give the name of Icarian to the 

 part between Samos and Myconos, and the other 

 Greek names are taken from the gulfs that we 

 have mentioned. 



XII. So much for the arrangement of the seas and isiandsdcwn 

 the nations in the tliird Gulf of Europc. The islands l^^^^^f 

 are as follows : opposite to Thesprotia, 12 miles from 

 Buthrotus and also 50 from Acroceraunia, Hes Corfu, 

 with a city of the same name, a free state, and the 

 towTi of Cassopo, and the temple of Jupiter Cassius ; 

 the island is 97 miles long. In Homer it has the names 

 of Scheria and Phaeacia, and in CalHmachus also that 

 of Drepane. Several ishmds He round it, especially 

 Fano on the side towards Italy and Paxo and Antipaxo 

 towards Leucadia, both 5 miles away from Corfu. 

 Not far from these, lying ofF Corfu, are Ericusa, 

 Marathe, Elaphusa, Malthace, Trachie, Pythionia, 

 Ptychia and Tarachie, and off the promontory of 

 Corfu caHed Capo Drasti the rock into which 

 (according to the story, which is due to the similarity 

 of shape) the ship of Ulysses was changcd. Off 

 Leucadia and AetoHa are a very large number, 

 among which those caUed the Teleboides, and also 

 by their inhabitants the Taphiae, are Ta})hias, 

 Carnos, Oxia, and Prinoessa;" ofF AetoHa are the 

 Echinades, AcgiaHa, Cotonis, Thyatira, Geoaris, 

 Dionysia, Cyrnus, Chalcis, Pinara, Nystrus. Off 

 these out at sea He Cephallenia and Zante, both free, 



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