488 PLrSr's IfATUEAL HISTOET. [BookV. 



Hiera have also perished. Eresos\ Pyrrha, and the free 

 city of Mitylene^, still survive, the last of which vras a 

 powerful city for a space of 1500 years. The circumference 

 of the whole island is, according to Isidorus, 168 miles', 

 but the older writers say 195. Its mountains are, Lepe- 

 thymnus, Ordymnus, Macistus, Creon, and Olympus. It is 

 distant seven miles and a half from the nearest point of the 

 mainland. The islands in its vicinity are, Sandaleon, and 

 the five called Leucse'* ; Cydonea^, which is one of them, 

 contains a warm spring. The ArginusscT^ are four miles 

 distant from Mge^ ; after them come Phellusa^ and Pedna. 

 Beyond the Hellespont, and opposite the shore of Sigeum, 

 lies Tenedos^, also known by the names of Leucophrys^'', 

 Phoenice, and Lyrnesos. It is distant from Lesbos lifty-six 

 miles, and twelve and a half from Sigeum, 



CHAP. 40. (32.) — THE HELLESPONT AND MTSIA. 



The tide of the Hellespont now begins to run with greater 

 violence, and the sea beats against the shore, undermining 

 with its eddies the barriers that stand in its way, until it 

 has succeeded in separating Asia from Europe. At this 

 spot is the promontory which we have already mentioned 

 as Trapeza" ; ten miles distant from which is the city of 



1 Or Eressus, according to Strabo. It stood on a hill, reaching down 

 to the sea. Its ruins are said to be near a place still called Eresso, It 

 was the birth-place of the philosopher Theophrastus, the disciple of 

 Aristotle. , 2 g^iU called Mitylene, or Metelin. 



8 Strabo makes it about only 137 miles. "• Or the White Islands. 



5 So called from its fruitfulness in quinces, or " Mala Cydonia.'^ 



8 These were three small islands, near the mainland of jEolis. It 

 was off these islands that the ten generals of the Athenians gained 

 a victory over the Spartans, B.C. 4(^. The modem name of these 

 islands is said to be Janot. 



7 One of the Leucse, previously mentioned. 



8 So called from the ^eXXos, or " cork," which it produced. 



9 Still known as Tenedos, near the mouth of the Hellespont. Here 

 the Q-reeks were said to have concealed their fleet, to induce the Trojans 

 to think that they had departed, and then introduce the wooden horse 

 within their walls. 



10 « Having white eye-brows ;" probably from the wliiteness of its cliffs* 

 " In C. 33 of the present Book. 



