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(opposite which, on the mainland, is Aulis), Gersestus*, 

 Eretria*, Carystus', Oritanum, and Artemisium''. Here are 

 also the Fountain of Arethusa'^ the river Lelantus, and the 

 warm springs known as EUopiae ; it is still better known, 

 however, for the marble of Carystus. This island used 

 formerly to be called Chalcodontis and Macris^, as we learn 

 from Dionysius and Ephorus ; according to Aristides, Macra ; 

 also, as Callidemus says, Chalcis, because copper was first 

 discovered here. MensBchmus says that it was called 

 Abantias^, and the poets generally give it the name of 

 Asopis. 



CHAP. 22. — THE CTCLADES. 



Beyond Euboea, and out in the Myrtoan^ Sea, are numerous 

 other islands ; but those more especially famous are, Glau- 



bridge, partly of stone, partly of wood. The poet Lycophron and the 

 orator Isajus were natives of this place, and Aristotle died here. 



1 Near the promontory of that name, now Capo Mandili. In the 

 town there was a 'famous temple of Poseidon, or Neptune. According 

 to Hardouin, the modem name is lastura. 



*-* One of the most powerful cities of Euboea. It was destroyed by the 

 Persians under Darius, and a new tovm was built to the south of the old 

 one. New Eretria -stood, according to Leake, at the modem Kastri, and 

 old Eretria in the neighbourhood of Vathy. The tragic poet Aeha;u3, a 

 contemporary of jEschylus, was bom here ; and a school of philosophy 

 was founded at this place by Menedemus, a disciple of Plato. 



3 Now Karysto, on the south of the island, at the foot of Mount 

 Ocha, upon wliich are supposed to have been its quarries of marble. 

 There are but few remains of the ancient city. The historian Antigonvis, 

 the comic poet Apollodorus, and the physician Diodes, were natives of 

 this place. 



^ Probably on the promontory of the same name. It was off this 

 coast that the Greek fleet engaged that of Xerxes, B.C. 480. 



5 There were tame fish kept in this foimtain ; and its waters were 

 sometimes disturbed by volcanic agency. Leake says that it has now 

 totally disappeared. 



^ From the fact of its producing copper, and of its being in shape long 

 and narrow. 



7 Strabo remarks, that Homer calls its inhabitants Abantes, while he 

 gives to the island the name of Euboea. The poets say that it took its 

 name from the cow (Bovs) lo, who gave birth to Epaphus on this 

 island. 



8 Hardouin remarks here, that Pliny, Strabo, Mela, and Pausanias use 

 the term " Myrtoan Sea," as meaning that portion of it which Hes 

 between Crete and Attica, while Ptolemy so calls the sea which hes off 

 the coast of Caria. 



