Chap. 89.] ACCOUITT OP COTTNTBrES, ETC. 487 



with a city of that name, Cercise, Halone*, Commone, 

 Illetia, Lepria and Khesperia, Procusa?, Bolbul®, Phanae, 

 Priapos, Syce, Melane, -^nare, Sidusa, Pele, Drymusa', 

 Anhydros, Scopelos', SycuBsa, Marathussa, Psile, Perirreusa, 

 and many others of no note. In the main sea lies the 

 celebrated island of Teos, with a city* of that name, seventy- 

 one miles and a half distant from Chios, and the same firom 

 the Ervthrte. 



In the vicinity of Smyrna are the Peristerides*, Carteria; 

 Alopece, Elajussa, Bachina, Pystira, Crommyonnesos, and 

 Megale*. Facing Troas there are the Ascaniae, and the 

 three islands called Platea*. We find also the Lamiae, the 

 two islands called Plitaniap, Plate, Scopelos, Getone, Arthe- 

 don, Coelaj, Laguasae, and Didymse. 



CHAP. 39. — LESBOS. 



But Lesbos^, distant from Chios sixty-five miles, is the 

 most celebrated of them all. It was formerly called Himerte, 

 Lasia, Pelasgia, ^gira, -^thiope, and Macaria, and is 

 famous for its nine cities. Of these, however, that of Pyrrha 

 has been swallowed up by the sea, Arisbe" has perished by 

 an earthquake, and Slethymna is now united to Antissa* ; 

 these lie in the vicinity of nine cities of Asia, along a 

 coast of thirty-seven miles. The to^Mis of Agamede and 



vicinity were forty in number ; of which Pliny here gives the names of 

 two-and-twenty. * South of Proconnesus ; now called Aloni. 



2 Near the city of Clazomenae. It is now called Vourla, according 

 to Ansart. * Now Koutah, according to Ansart. 



* We learn from Strabo and other writers, that this city was on a pen- 

 insula, and that it stood on the southern side of the isthmus, connecting 

 Mount Munas with the mainland of Lydia. It was the birth-place of 

 Anacreon and Hecatseus. 



' Or the " Dove Islands ; " probably firom the multitude of those birds 

 found on those islands. 



^ Now called Antigona, according to Ansart. 



^ Now Mitylene, or Metelin. 



® We find it also stated by Herodotus, that this island was destroyed 

 by the Methyranseans. The cities of Mitylene, Methymna, Eresus, 

 Pyrrha, Antissa, and Arisbe, originally formed the -lEohan Heiapolis, 

 or Confederation of Six Cities. 



' The ruins found by Pococke at Galas Limneonas, north-east of Cape 

 Sigri, may be those of Antissa. This place was the birth-place of Ter- 

 pander, the inventor of the seven-stringed lyre. 



