312 PLIIfY's NATOEAL HISTOET. [Book IV. 



In the Asinaean Gulf there are the three Thyrides^ and in 

 that of Laconia Theganusa^, Cothon, and Cythera^, with the 

 town of that name, the former name of which island was 

 Porphyris. It is situate five miles from the promontory of 

 Malea'',thus forming a strait very dangerous to navigation. In 

 the Gulf of Argolis are Pitynsa*, Irine, and Ephyre ; opposite 

 the territory of Hermione®, Tiparenus, Aperopia'^, Colonis^, 

 and Aristera ; and, opposite that of Troezen, Calauria', at a 

 distance of half a mile, Plateis^", Belbina, Lasia, and Bau- 

 cidias. Opposite Epidaurus is Cecryphalos", and Pity- 

 onesos^^, six miles distant from the mainland; and, at a 

 distance of fifteen miles from this last, ^gina^^, a free island, 

 the length of which, as you sail past it, is eighteen miles. 

 This island is twenty miles distant from Piraeus, the port of 

 Athens: it used formerly to be called (Enone. Opposite 

 the promontory of SpiraDum^"*, lie Eleusa^^, Adendros", the 

 two islands called Craugiae, the tvvo Caeciae, Selachusa, 

 Cenchreis, and Aspis ; as also, in the Gulf of Megara, the 

 four Methurides. .^gila^' lies at a distance of fifteen miles 



^ Venetico and Formignes are the names of two of them. 



2 Now Servi. 



3 The modern Cerigo. 



^ It is much further fi-om the Cape of Malea or Santo Angelo than 

 the distance here mentioned. It derived its name of Porphyria fix)m the 

 purple fishery estabhshed here by the Phoenicians. 



5 The modem Isle of Port Tolon. Irine is the present Hipsyli ac- 

 cording to Leake, who also identifies Ephyre with Spetzia. 



6 At the south of Argohs. 



7 The modern Dhoko, according to Leake. Some authorities think 

 that Tiparenus, and not Ephyre, is the modem Spetzia. 



^ Leake thinks that Colonis and Hydreia, now called Hydra, were the 

 same island ; but Kiepert thinks it the same as the smaU island to the 

 Bouth of Spetzia. ^ Now Poros. 



10 These are the islands now called Moni Jorench, Kophinidia, and 

 San Giorgio d'Arbora. It is perhaps impossible to identify them, except 

 that Belbina is generally supposed to be the island of San Giorgio. 



1^ Now Kyra. 



12 The modern Angistri. 



13 Wliich name, or Eghina, it still retains. 



14 See c. 9 of tliis Book. 



1' Probably the modem Laoussa, one of this group. 

 1^ By Brotier said to be the modem Pentenesia. The other islands 

 here mentioned seem not to have been identified. 

 17 Now Cerigotto. 



