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from Cythera, and of twenty-five from Phalasama, a city 

 of Crete. 



CHAP. 20. — CEETE. 



Crete itself lies from east to west, the one side facing the 

 South, the other the north, and is known to fame by the 

 renown of its hundred cities. Dosiades says, that it took 

 its name from the nymph Crete, the daughter of Hesperides^ ; 

 Anaximander,from a king of the Curetes, Philistides of Mallus 

 *####. -vvhile Crates says that it was at first called Aeria, 

 and after that Curetis ; and some have been of opinion 

 that it had the name of Macaron'^ from the serenity of its 

 climate. In breadth it nowhere exceeds fifty miles, being 

 widest about the middle. In length, however, it is full 270 

 miles, and 589 in circumference, forming a bend towards 

 the Cretan Sea, which takes its name from it. At its 

 eastern extremity is the Promontory of Sammonium^, facing 

 Ehodes, while towards the west it throws out that of Criu- 

 metopon'', in the direction of Cyrene. 



The more remarkable cities of Crete are, Phalasama, Etaa*, 

 Cisamon^, Pergamum, Cydonia^, Minoium^, Apteron^, Panto- 

 matrium, Amphimalla''', Rhithymna, Panormus, Cytaeum, A- 

 poUonia, Matium",Heraclea,!^liletos, Ampelos, Hierapytna^", 



* Dalechamps 8ugge8t3 Hesperus. 



8 The island " of the Blessed." 3 Now Capo Salomon. 

 ' * From the Greek Kpiov /ierwTrov, " the ram's forehead" ; now called 

 Capo Crio. 



^ Also called Elsea. Pococke speaks of it as a promontory called 

 Chaule-bumau. ^ Hardomn calls it Chisamo. 



' The modem Khania. The quince derived its Latin name, " Malum 

 Cydonium," from this district, to which it was indigenous. From its 

 Latin name it was called melicotone by the writers of the Elizabethan 

 period. * Jfow Minolo, according to Hardouin. 



' The port of Apteron, or Aptera, which Mr. Pashley supposes to be 

 denoted by the ruins of Palseokastro ; he also thinks tliat its port was 

 at or near the modern Kalyres. 



^° Now La Suda, according to Hardouin, who says that Ehithymna is 

 called Retimo ; Panormus, Panormo ; and Cytseum, Setia. 



" Supposed by Ansart to have stood in the vicinity of the modem city 

 of Candia. 



^" Strabo says that it stood on the narrowest part of the island, opposite 

 Minoa. Vestiges of it have been foiind at the Kastele of Hierapetra. 

 Its foundation was ascribed to the Corybantes. 



