Chap. 18.] ACCOUNT OE COTOTEIES, ETC. 809 
treme front of tlie Cliersonesus, which is called ^Eolium, there 
is the city of Elseus. Advancing thence towards the Grulf of 
Melas, we have the port of Coelos^ Panormus, and then 
Cardia, previously mentioned. 
In this manner is the third great Grulf of Europe bounded. 
The mountains of Thrace, besides those already mentioned, 
are Edonus, Grigemoros, Meritus, and Melamphyllos ; the 
rivers are the Bargus and the Syrmus, which fall into the 
Hebrus. The length of Macedonia, Thrace, and the Hel- 
lespont has been already^ mentioned ; some writers, how- 
ever, make it 720 miles, the breadth being 384. 
What may be called a rock rather than an island, lying 
between Tenos and Chios, has given its name to the ^gean 
Sea ; it has the name of from its strong resemblance 
to a goat, which is so called in Grreek, and shoots precipitately 
from out of the middle of the sea. Those who are sail- 
ing towards the isle of Andros from Achaia, see this rock on 
the left, boding no good, and warning them of its dangers. 
Part of the JEgean Sea bears the name of Myrtoan'^, being 
so called from the small island [of Myrtos] which is seen 
as you sail towards Macedonia from Grersestus , not far from 
Carystus^ in Euboea. The Romans include all these seas 
under two names, — the Macedonian, in those parts where it 
touches the coasts of Macedonia or Thrace, and the Grrecian 
where it washes the shores of Greece. The G-reeks, how- 
ever, divide the Ionian Sea into the Sicilian and the Cretan 
Seas, after the name of those islands ; and they give the 
name of Icarian to that part which lies between Samos and 
Myconos. The gulfs which we have already mentioned, 
have given to these seas the rest of their names. Such, 
1 Now called Kilidbahr. Near this place the Spartans were de- 
feated by the Athenians, who erected a trophy near the tomb of 
Hecuba. 
2 In the present Chapter ; where he says that the distance from Byzan- 
tium to Dyrrhachium is 711 miles. See p. 305. 
3 MK, "a goat." Other authors give other derivations for the name of 
JEgean, — from the town of ^gsd in Euboea, or from ^geus, the father 
of Theseus, who threw himself into it ; or from jiEgsea, a queen of the 
Amazons, who perished there ; or from JEgseon, a god of the sea ; or 
from the Grreek aiyh, " a squall," on account of its storms. 
^ See c. 5 of this Book. 
^ Both places in Euboea, mentioned in c. 21 of this Book. 
