284 rLnry's natueal histoet. [Book IV. 



CHAP. 9. — AEGOLIS. 



The next gulf, which extends as far as Scyllaeum^ is called 

 the Argolic Gulf, being fifty miles across, and 162 in circuit. 

 The towns upon it are, Bcea^, Epidaurus^, surnamed Limera, 

 Zarax'*, and the port of Cyphanta". The rivers are the 

 Inachus^ and the Erasinus, between which lies Argos, sur- 

 named Hippium^, situate beyond the place called Lema', and 

 at a distance of two miles from the sea. Nine miles farther is 

 Mycenae^, and the place where, it is said, Tiryns^" stood ; the 

 site, too, of Mantinea". The mountains are, Artemius, Ape- 

 santus'^, Asterion^^, Parparus, and some others, eleven in 

 number. The fountains are those of Niobe", Amymone, and 

 Psamathe. 



Erom Scyllaeum to the Isthmus of Corinth is a distance 

 of 177 miles. We find here the to-^jvus of Hermione^", 

 Troezen^®, Coryphasium^'^, and Argos, sometimes called " Ina- 



1 Now Capo Skillo. 



2 Or Ba?fie. Its ruins are to be seen at the head of the Gulf of Yatika. 



3 It stood on the site of the place called Pake-Emvasia, above 

 Monenibasia. 



4 Its site is the modem Porto Kari, according to Ansart. 



5 Leake places Cyphanta either at Cyparissi, or farther north, at 

 Lenidhi. Ansart makes it the modem Porto Botte, or Stilo. 



6 Now the Banitza. The Erasinus is the modem Kephalari. 



" So called from its breed of horses. It is now also called Argos ; 

 three leagues fi-om Napoli di Romania. 



^ Its site is now called Milos. In the marshes in its vicinity Hercules 

 was said to have killed the Lemsean Hydra. 



9 Karvata is the name of the place on its site. Its ruins are numerous, 

 and of great magnificence. 



10 Its ruins are of the most interesting nature, presenting enormous 

 masses of stone, of Cyclopian architecture. The spot is at the present day 

 called Palse-NaupHa. 



" It must not be confounded vdth the place in Arcadia, where Epami- 

 nondas fell. Its site appears to be unknown. 



12 Or Apesas, in the territory of Cleonse, now called Fuka, Artemius 

 is probably the present Malvouni, or Malcyo. 



13 A river of the same name rose in this mountain j its identity is 

 unknown. 



14 So called from Niobe, the sister of Pelops and wife of Amphion, 

 king of Thebes. The spring of Amymone ran into the lake of Lema. 



1^ Its ruins are to be seen in the vicinity of the modern village of Castri : 

 they are very extensive. 



18 The modem Dhamala occupies the site of Troezen. 



17 The identity of this Coryphasium seems to be xmascertained. There 



