312 pliity's natceal histoey. [Book lY. 
In tlie Asinaean Gulf there are tlie three Thyrides\ and in 
that of Laconia Theganusa^, Cothon, and Cythera^, with the 
town of that name, the former name of which island was 
Porphyris. It is situate five miles from the promontory of 
Malea^jthus forming a strait very dangerous to navigation. In 
the Grulf of Argolis are Pityusa^ Irine, and Ephyre ; opposite 
the territory of Hermione^, Tiparenus, Aperopia-^, Colonis^, 
and Aristera ; and, opposite that of Troezen, Calauria^, at a 
distance of half a mile, Plateis^^, Belbina, Lasia, and Bau- 
cidias. Opposite Epidaurus is Cecryphalos^\ and Pity- 
onesos^^, six miles distant from the mainland; and, at a 
distance of fifteen miles from this last, JEgina^^, a free island, 
the length of which, as you sail past it, is eighteen miles. 
This island is twenty miles distant from Piraeus, the port of 
Athens : it used formerly to be called (Enone. Opposite 
the promontory of Spiraeum^'^, lie Eleusa^^, Adendros^^, the 
two islands called Craugige, the two Csecise, Selachusa, 
Cenchreis, and Aspis ; as also, in the Grulf of Megara, the 
four Methurides. ^gila^'' lies at a distance of fifteen miles 
^ Yenetico and Formignes are the names of two of them. 
^ Now Servi. 
^ The modem Cerigo. 
^ It is much further from the Cape of Malea or Santo Angelo than 
the distance here mentioned. It derived its name of Porphyris from the 
purple fishery estabhshed here by the Phoenicians. 
5 The modern Isle of Port Tolon. Irine is the present Hipsyli ac- 
cording to Leake, who also identifies Ephyre with Spetzia. 
6 At the south of Argolis. 
7 The modern Dhoko, according to Leake. Some authorities think 
that Tiparenus, and not Ephyre, is the modern Spetzia. 
^ Leake thinks that Colonis and Hydreia, now called Hydra, were the 
same island ; but Kiepert thinks it the same as the small island to the 
south of Spetzia. ^ Now Poros. 
10 These are the islands now called Moni Jorench, Kophinidia, and 
San Griorgio d' Arbora. It is perhaps impossible to identify them, except 
that Belbina is generally supposed to be the island of San Griorgio. 
1^ Now Kyra. 
12 The modern Angistri. 
13 Which name, or Eghina, it still retains. 
14 See c. 9 of this Book. 
1= Probably the modern Laoussa, one of this group. 
1^ By Brotier said to be the modem Pentenesia. The other islands 
here mentioned seem not to have been identified. 
17 Now Oerigotto. 
