PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



dum extimam, Gerontiam, Scandiram ; Thermaeus 

 Iresiam,Solymniam,Eudcmiam,Neam quae Minervae 

 sacra est; Athos ante se iv, Peparethum cum oppido, 

 quondam Evoenum dictam novem milia, Sciathum 

 XV, Imbinim cum oppido iTxxxvTTi ; eadem abest a 

 Mastusia Cherronesi xxTi p., ipsa circuitus lxii d 



73 perfimditur amne IHsso. ab ea Lcmnos xxTi, quae 

 ab Atho Lx.xxvii ; circuitu patet cxv d p., oppida 

 habet Hephaestiam et Myrinam in cuius forum 

 solstitio Atlios eiaculatur umbram. ab ea Thasos 

 Ubera vi, ohm Aeria vel Aethria dicta; indc Abdera 

 continentis xxTi, Athos lxIi d, tantundem insula 

 Samothrace Ubera ante Hebrum, ab Imbro xxxii, 

 a Lemno .vxTi d p., a Thraciae ora xxxvifi, circuitus 

 .xxxv-; attoUitur monte Saoce x p. ahitudinis, vel 

 inportuosissima omnium. CalUmaclius cam antiquo 

 nomine Dardaniam vocat. 



74 Intcr Cherronesum et Samotliracen, utrimque fere 

 XV Haloncsos, ultra Gethone, Lamponia, Alope- 

 conncsus haut procul a Coelo Chcrronesi ])ortu, et 

 quaedam ignobiles. desertis quoque reddantur in 

 hoc sinu quarum modo inveniri potuere nomina : 

 Avesticos, Samos, Cissyros, Charbrusa, Calathusa, 

 ScyUia, Dialcon, Dictaea, Melantliia, Dracanon, 



• Thia is nearly double the actuai distancc. 



* Cf. Sophoclcs (Schol. ad Thcocr. Id. G. 72) 'AOo)? a/cia^ei 

 vuyra Arjiivias oAdj. Myrina at thc S.W. corncr of Lcmnos lics 

 at a distance of ahout 50 milca duo S.E. of .Mount Athos, 

 •which i3 G350 ft. high. 



« The text clamuurs for emendation — Wannington sug- 

 gests M p. — unless indccd the figure rcally givea not the height 

 of the peak but the lcngth of the path up it. Baedckcr, 

 Medilerranean, p. ."iS.S, gives the highest point on .Saraothraco 

 as 52."iO ft., a little undcr a mile, and the aititude of Mont 

 Blanc 19 just undcr 3 mile.s English : tho Roman mile waa 

 142 yards shorter than the EngUsh. 



