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treme front of the Chersonesus, which is called Solium, there 

 is the city of Elajus. Advancing thence towards the Gulf of 

 Melas, we have the port of Coelos', Panormus, and then 

 Cardia, pre^^ouslJ mentioned. 



In this manner is the third great Gulf of Europe bounded. 

 The mountains of Thrace, besides those already mentioned, 

 are Edonus, Gigenwros, Meritus, and Melamj)hyllos ; the 

 rivers are the Bargus and the Syrmus, which fall into the 

 Hebrus. The length of Macedonia, Thrace, and the Hel- 

 lespont has been already^ mentioned; some writers, how- 

 ever, make it 720 miles, the breadth being 384. 



What may be called a rock rather than an island, lying 

 between Tenos and Chios, has given its name to the ^gean 

 Sea ; it has the name of Mx^ from its strong resemblance 

 to a goat, which is so called in Greek, and shoots precipitately 

 from out of the middle of the sea. Those 'W'ho are sail- 

 ing towards the isle of Andros from Achaia, see this rock on 

 the left, boding no good, and warning them of its dangers. 

 Part of the JEgaan Sea bears the name of Myrtoan*, being 

 so called from the small island [of Myrtos] which is seen 

 as you sail towards Macedonia from Gersestus , not far from 

 Carystus* in Euboea. The Romans include all these seas 

 under two names, — the Macedonian, in those parts where it 

 touches the coasts of Macedonia or Thrace, and the Grecian 

 where it washes the shores of Greece The Greeks, how- 

 ever, divide the Ionian Sea into the Sicilian and the Cretan 

 Seas, after the name of those islands ; and they give the 

 name of Icarian to that part which lies between Samos and 

 Myconos. The gulfs which we have already mentioned, 

 have given to these seas the rest of their names. Such, 



^ Now called Kilidbahr. Near this place the Spartans were de- 

 feated by the Athenians, who erected a trophy near the tomb of 

 Hecuba. 



2 In the present Chapter ; where he says that the distance from Byzan- 

 tium to Dyrrhacliium is 711 miles. See p. 305. 



3 Al?, "a goat." Other authors give other derivations for the name of 

 ^gean, — from the town of ^gae in Euboea, or from ^geus, the father 

 of Theseus, who threw himself into it ; or fi'om jfEgsea, a queen of the 

 Amazons, who perished there ; or from iEgseon, a god of the sea ; or 

 from the Greek aiyls, " a squall," on account of its storms. 



* See c. 5 of this Book. 

 .' Both places m Euboea, mentioned in c. 21 of this Book. 



