BOOK IV. XII. 62-65 



and Carthaea, while Coresus and Grassy Island have 

 disappearcd. Varro states that this island used to 

 export an exceptionally fine kind of cloth used for 

 ladies' dresses. 



Euboea itself also is sundered from Boeotia by so 

 moderate a channel, the Euripus, that it is joined 

 to the mainland by a bridge. At the south end it 

 has two marked promontories, Capo Mandih point- 

 ing towards Attica and Kavo Doro towards the 

 Dardanelles ; at the north it has Cape Lithadha. 

 Its breadth nowhere exceeds 40 miles and nowhere 

 contracts below two miles ; its length stretches along 

 the whole of I5oeotia from Attica to Thessaly and 

 measures 150 miles, while its circumference is 365 

 miles. At its south-easternmost point its distance 

 from the Dardanelles is 225 miles. Its notable 

 cities were formerly Pyrrha, Porthmos, Nesos, Cerin- 

 thos, Oreus, Dium, Aedepsos, Ocha and Oechaha; 

 those now noteworthy are Chalcis (opposite which on 

 the mainland is Auhs), Geraestus, Eretria, Carystus, 

 Oritanum and Artemisium, as well as the Spring of 

 Arethusa, the river Lclantus and the warm springs 

 known as the Hellopiae. Euboea is, however, still 

 better known for the marble of Carystus. It used 

 formerly to be called Chalcodontis or according to 

 Dionysius and Ephorus Macris, but Macra according 

 to Aristides, and according to Calhdemus Chalcis, 

 because copper was first discovered there ; according 

 to Menaechmus its name was Abantias, while in 

 poetry it is commonly called Asopis. 



In the Myrtoan Sea besides Euboea are many isiavds of 

 islands, the best known being Glauconnesus and the ^Jj/^^*'"''' 

 Aegila islands, and otF Capo Mandih the Cyclades, ?''o«p. 

 lying round Delos in a circle which has given them 



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