BOOK IV. XII. 72-74 



and Scandira ; across the Gulf of Saloniki Iresia 

 Solymnia, Eudemia and Nea, the last an island 

 sacred to Minerva ; across the Gulf of Athos He four 

 islands, Piperi with the town of that name and formerly 

 called Evoenus, 9 miles ofF, Sciathos 15 miles, and 

 Embro with its town 88 miles ; the distance bctween 

 Embro and Mastusia on the GallipoH Peninsula is 

 22 miles. Embro is 62i miles in circuit ; it is watered 

 by the river IHssus. Twenty-two miles from Embro 

 is StaHmene, wliich Hes 87 " miles from Mount yVthos ; 

 its circuit measures 115 J miles, and on it are the towns 

 of Hephaestia and Myrina — the market place of the 

 latter is reached by the shadow of Mount Atlios * 

 at mid-summer. Six miles from Stalimene is Thasos, 

 a free state, formerly called Aeria or Aethria ; Abdera 

 on the mainland is 22 miles from Thasos, and 

 Athos 62| miles, and the island of Samothrace, a 

 free state, off the river Maritza, is the same distance 

 from Thasos, 32 miles from Embro, 22| from StaH- 

 mene, and 38 from the coast of Thrace ; its circuit 

 measures 35 miles, and on it rises Monte Nettuno, 

 which is 10 miles high.'' Embro gives the worst 

 ancliorage for vessels of all the islands. It is men- 

 tioned by CaHimachus under its ancient name of 

 Dardania. 



Between the GalHpoH peninsula and Samothrace, isiatuUo/ 

 about 15 miles from each, is the island of Skopelo, ^'^'■^■'^^iieaii. 

 and beyond it are Gethone, Lamponia, Alopeconncsus, 

 which is not far from Coelos the port of GaHipoH, 

 and some others of no importance. We may also 

 specify the names of uninhabited islands in the Gulf 

 so far as we have been able to ascertain them : 

 Avesticos, Sarnos, Cissyros, Charbrusa, Calathusa, 

 ScyUia, Dialcon, Dictaca, Melanthia, Dracanon, 



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