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chian,'* sometimes " Dipsian"^ Argos. Then comes the port 
of Schoenites^, and the Saronic Gulf, which was formerly 
encircled with a grove of oaks^, from which it derives its 
present name, oaks in ancient Greece having been so called. 
Upon this gulf is the town of Epidaurus, famous for its 
temple of ^Isculapius"^, the Promontory of Spirseum^, the port 
of Anthedus^, Bucephalus^, and then Cenchreae, previously 
mentioned, on this side of the Isthmus, with its temple of 
Neptune^, famous for the games celebrated there every five 
years. So many are the gulfs which penetrate the shores of 
the Peloponnesus, so many the seas which howl around it. 
Invaded by the Ionian on the north, it is beaten by the 
Sicilian on the west, buffeted by the Cretan on the south, 
by the ^gean on the S.E., and by the Myrtoan on the N.E. ; 
which last sea begins at the Gulf of Megara, and washes all 
the coast of Attica. 
CHAP. 10. (6.) — ARCADIA, 
Its interior is occupied for the greater part by Arcadia, 
which, remote from the sea on every side, was ori- 
was a promontory of that name in Messenia ; but it cannot be the place 
here spoken of. 
1 It is supposed that PHnv here alludes to Argos Hippium, which he 
has previously mentioned ; but only in connection with the rivers Inachus 
and Erasinus, and not as included in the hst of the towns of ArgoHs. 
The origin of the term " Dipsian" is probably unknown. It could hardly 
allude to drought, as Argos was abundantly suppHed with water. But 
see B. vii. c. 57. 
2 Ancart says that this is the modem Porto Estremo, at the mouth of 
the Saronic Gulf. 
3 Hesychius says that oaks were caUed ffapiovides in the language of 
ancient Greece. This gulf is now called the Gulf of Egina, or of 
A thens. 
^ He was worshipped here under the form of a serpent; and his 
temple, five miles from Epidaurus, was resorted to by patients from all 
parts of Greece for the cure of their diseases. The ruins of this temple 
are still to be seen, and those of the theatre at Epidaurus are very ex- 
tensive. The village of Pidharvo stands in the midst of the ruins. 
* The modern Capo Franco. 
* Lapie takes Anthedus, or Anthedon, to be the place now called 
Porto d' Athene. 
7 This appears to have been a port of Corinth, on a promontory of the 
same name, meaning, probably from its shape, the " Bull's Head Point." 
Called the *Posideium'; in its vicinity the games were celebrated. 
The Isthmian Sanctuary was especially famous as a place of refuge. 
