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Aft^r we pass these, no regular order can be well observed ; 

 'fhe rest must therefore be mentioned indiscriminatelj. 

 There is the island of Scyros^ and that of los^, eighteen miles 

 distant from Naxos, ana deserving of all veneration for the 

 tomb there of Homer ; it is twenty-five miles in length, and 

 was formerly known hj the name of Phoenice ; also Odia, 

 Oletandros, and Gyara**, with a city of the same name, the 

 island being twelve miles in circumference, and distant from 

 Andros sixty-two. At a distance of eighty miles from 

 Gyara is Syrnos, then Cynajthus, Telos"*, noted for its un- 

 guents, and by Callimachus called Agathussa, Donusa**, 

 Patmos**, thirty miles in circumference, the Corassiae^, Le- 



* Now Scyro, east of Euboaa, and one of the Sporades. Here Achilles 

 was said to have been concealed by his mother Thetis, in woman's 

 attire. • 



2 Now Nio, one of the Sporades, inaccurately called by Stephanus one 

 of the Cyclades. The modem town is built on the site of the ancient 

 one, of which there are some remains. It was said that Homer died 

 here, on his voyage from Smyrna to Athens, and that his mother, 

 Clymene, waa a native of this island. In 1773, Van Krienen, a Dutch 

 nobleman, asserted that he had discovered the tomb of Homer here, with 

 certain inscriptions relative to him ; but they have been generally re- 

 garded by the learned as forgeries. Odia and Oletandros seem not to 

 have been identified. 



* Now called Gioura, or Jura. It was httle better than a barren rock, 

 though inhabited; but so notorious for its poverty, that its mice 

 were said to be able to gnaw through iron. It was used as a place 

 of banishment under the Roman emperors, whaiee the line of Ju- 

 venal, i. 73 — 



" Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum." 



" Dare some deed deserving of the httle Gyara and the gaol." It is now 

 iminhabited, except by a few shepherds in the summer. 



* Now Telos, or Piskopi, a small island in the Carpathian Sea, and one 

 of the Sporades. It hes off the coast of Caria. Syrnos appears not to 

 have been identified. 



* Near Naxos. Virgil calls it *viridis,' or * green,' which Servius ex- 

 plains by the colour of its marble. Like Gyara, it waa used as a place 

 of banishment xmder the Roman Empire. In C. '22, Pliny has mentioned 

 Cynsethus as one of the names of Delos. 



6 Now Patmo, one of the Sporades, and west of the Promontory of 

 Posidiiim, in Caria. To this place St. John was banished, and here he 

 wrote the Apocalypse. 



' A group between Icaria and Samos. They are now called Phumi 

 and Kinisi. 



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