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chian," sometimes " Dipsian"^ Argos. Then comes the port 

 of Schoenites^, and the Saronic Gulf, which was formerly 

 encircled with a grove of oaks', from which it derives its 

 present name, oaks in ancient Greece having been so called. 

 Upon this gulf is the town of Epidaurus, famous for its 

 temple of -3^-sculapius^ the Promontory of Spiraeum*, the port 

 of Anthedus^, Bucephalus'', and then Cenchreae, previously 

 mentioned, on this side of the Isthmus, with its temple of 

 Neptune®, famous for the games celebrated there every five 

 years. So many are the gulfs which penetrate the shores of 

 the Peloponnesus, so many the seas which howl around it. 

 Invaded by the Ionian on the north, it is beaten by the 

 Sicilian on the west, buffeted by the Cretan on the south, 

 by the jEgean on the S.E., and by the Myrtoan on the N.E. ; 

 which last sea begins at the Gulf of Megara, and washes all 

 the coast of Attica. 



CHAP. 10. (6.) — ARCADIA. 



Its interior is occupied for the greater part by Arcadia, 

 which, remote from the sea on eveiy side, was ori- 



•was a promontory of that name in Messenia ; but it cannot be the place 

 here spoken of. 



^ It is supposed that Pliny here alludes to Argos Hippium, which he 

 has previously mentioned ; but only in connection with the rivers Inachus 

 and Erasinus, and not as included in the list of the towns of Argolis. 

 The origin of the term " Dipsian" is probably unknown. It could hardly 

 allude to drought, as Argos was abundantly supplied with water. But 

 see B. vii. c. 57. 



2 Ancart says that this is the modem Porto Estremo, at the mouth of 

 the Saronic Gulf. 



3 Hesycliius says that oaks were called aapojviSes in the language of 

 ancient Greece. This gulf is now called the Gulf of Egina, or of 

 Athens. 



^ He was worshipped here under the form of a serpent j and his 

 temple, five miles from Epidaurus, was resorted to by patients from all 

 pai'ts of Greece for the cure of their diseases. The ruins of this temple 

 are still to be seen, and those of the theatre at Epidaurus are very ex- 

 tensive. The village of Pidharvo stands in the midst of the ruins. 



^ The modem Capo Franco. 



^ Lapie takes Anthedus, or Anthedon, to be the place now called 

 Porto d' Athene. 



^ This appears to have been a port of Corinth, on a promontory of the 

 same name, meaning, probably from its shape, the " Bull's Head Point." 



** Called the ' Posideiima' ; in its vicinity the games were celebrated. 

 The Isthmian Sanctuary was Specially fiimous as a place of refuge. 



