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Meropis, as Dionysius tells us ; and, after that, I^yraphaBa. 

 In this island there is Moimt Prion. jSTisyros^ formerly- 

 called Porphyris, is supposed to have been severed from the 

 island of Cos. We next come to the island of Caryanda'^, 

 vrith a city of that name, and that of Pidosus^, not far 

 from Halicamassus. In the Gulf of Ceramicus we also find 

 Priaponnesos"*, Hipponnesos, Psyra, Mya,Lampsa,^myndu8, 

 Passala, Crusa, Pinnicussa, Sepiussa^, and INIelano. At a 

 short distance from the mainland is an island which bears 

 the name of Cina;dopolis, from the circumstance that King 

 Alexander left behind there certain persona of a most 

 disgraceful character. 



CHAP. 37. — SAMOS. 



The coast of Ionia has the islands of TrageaB, Corseae', 

 and Icaros, which has been previously' mentioned ; Lade*, 

 formerly called Late ; and, among others of no note, the two 

 CamelidaB^, in the vicinity of IVliletus ; and the three Tro- 

 gilia;'", near Mycale, consisting of Philion, Argennon, and 

 ISandalion. There is Samos also, a free" island, eighty-seven 

 miles in circumference, or, according to Isidorus, 100. Ari- 

 stotle tells us, that it was -at fir^t called Parthenia'^, after 



* Which has been previously mentioned in this Chapter. 



2 In C. 29, Pliny has mentioned a Caryanda on the mainland. It is 

 probable that there was a toNvn on the mairJand and another in the 

 island of the same name. Leake says, that there can be httle doubt that 

 the large peninsula, towards the west end of which is the fine harbour 

 called by the Turks Pasha Limani, is the ancient island of Caryanda, now 

 joined to the mainland by a narrow sandy isthmus. 



3 The island of Hyali, near the harbour of Meffi, on the coast of 

 Caria, according to Dupinet. 



* Probably so called from the worship of the god Priapus there. 



^ Few, if any, of these islets can now be recognized. Sepiussa was 

 probably so called from the abimdance of the sepia, or cuttle-fish, there. 

 ^ Over against the isle of Samos. 7 B. iy. c. 23. 



8 Near the city of Miletus. 



* So called from their resemblance to camels. 



^•^ Lying before the Promontory of TrogiHum, mentioned in C. 31. 



*^ Augustus gave their liberty to the Samians. The island is stiU 

 called by tbe Greeks Samo, and by the Turks Susam Adassi. 



12 The " Virgin's Island," if so called after Juno, as some say ; but 

 according to Strabo, it received its name fr'om the river Parthenius. 



