BOOK IV. xii. 67-70 



the town of that name, 38 miles from Delos, famous 

 for its mai-ble, and originally called Platea and after- 

 wards Minois. Seven and a half miles from Paros 

 and 18 from Delos is Naxos with its town, which was 

 called Strongyle and then Dia and afterwards the 

 Island of Dionysus because of the fertihty of its 

 vineyards, and by others Little Sicily or CalHpolis. 

 Its circuit measures 75 miles and it is Jialf as large 

 again as Paros. 



So far the islands are regarded as belonging to the isiands of 

 Cyclades, but the remainder that follow are called ^Aegem. 

 the Sporades." They are Helene, Phacusa, Nicasia, 

 Schinusa, Pholegandros,* and 38 miles from Naxos 

 and the same number of milcs in length,« Icaros,'* 

 which has given its name to the surrounding sea ; 

 it has two towns, a third having disappeared ; it was 

 formerly called Doliche or Long Island, also Fish 

 Island. It lies 50 miles north-east of Delos and 35 

 miles from Samos ; between Euboea and Andros 

 there is a channel 10 miles >vide, and the distance 

 from Icaros to Geraestus is 112^ miles. 



After these no regular order can be kept, so the oiher isiatids 

 remaining islands shall be given in a group : Scyro ; X?«jn^^ 

 Nio, 18 miles from Naxos, venerable as the burial- 

 place of Homer, 22 miles long, previously called 

 Phoenice ; Odia; Olctandros ; Gioura, with a to^vn 

 of the same name, 15 miles in circumference, 62 miles 

 distant from Andros ; 80 milcs from Gioura, Syrnos ; 

 Cynethus ; Telos, noted for its unguent, and called by 

 Calhmachus Agathusa; Domisa; Patmos, 30 miles 

 in circumference ; the Corassiae, Lebitha, Lero, 

 Zinari ; Sikino, previously Oenoe ; Heraclia or Onus ; 

 Casos or Astrabe ; KimoH or Echinusa ; Milo, with 

 the town of that name, called by Aristides MimbHs, 



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