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rLINy'S I5"ATUEAL HISTORY. 
[Book IV. 
CHAP. 9. AEGOLTS. 
The next gulf, which extends as far as Scyllseum^ is called 
the Argolic Gulf, being fifty miles across, and 162 in circuit. 
The towns upon it are, Boea^, Epidaurus^, surnamed Limera, 
Zarax"*, and the port of Cyphanta^ The rivers are the 
Inachus^ and the Erasinus, between which lies Argos, sur- 
named Hippium^, situate beyond the place called Lerna*, and 
at a distance of two miles from the sea. Nine miles farther is 
Mycenae^, and the place where, it is said, Tiryns^® stood ; the 
site, too, of Mantinea". The mountains are, Artemius, Ape- 
santus'^, Asterion^^, Parparus, and some others, eleven in 
number. The fountains are those of Niobe^^, Amymone, and 
Psamathe. 
Erom Scyllseum to the Isthmus of Corinth is a distance 
of 177 miles. We find here the towns of Hermione^^, 
Troezen^^, Coryphasium^^, and Argos, sometimes called " Ina- 
1 Now Capo Skillo. 
2 Or Boese. Its ruins are to be seen at the head of the Grulf of Yatika. 
3 It stood on the site of the place called Palse-Emvasia, above 
Monenibasia. 
Its site is the modern Porto Kari, according to Ansart. 
5 Leake places Cyphanta either at Cyparissi, or farther north, at 
Lenidhi. Ansart makes it the modern Porto Botte, or Stilo. 
6 Now the Banitza. The Erasinus is the modern Kephalari. 
J" So called from its breed of horses. It is now also called Argos ; 
three leagues ffom Napoli di Romania. 
s Its site is now called Milos. In the marshes in its vicinity Hercules 
was said to have killed the Lemsean Hydra. 
9 Karvata is the name of the place on its site. Its ruins are numerous, 
and of great magnificence. 
10 Its ruins are of the most interesting nature, presenting enormous 
masses of stone, of Cyclopian architecture. The spot is at the present day 
called Palse-Nauplia. 
11 It must not be confounded with the place in Arcadia, where Epami- 
nondas fell. Its site appears to be unknown. 
12 Or Apesas, in the territory of Cleonse, now called Fuka. Artemius 
is probably the present Malvouni, or Malcyo. 
13 A river of the same name rose in this mountain ; its identity is 
unknown. 
1-* So called from Niobe, the sister of Pelops and wife of Amphion, 
ting of Thebes. The spring of Amymone ran into the lake of Lerna. 
1^ Its ruins are to be seen in the vicinity of the modern village of Castri: 
they are very extensive. 
16 The modem Dhamala occupies the site of Troezen. 
'7 The identity of this Coryphasium seems to be imascertained. There 
