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ACCOUNT OF COriSfTEIES, ETC. 
813 
from Cythera, and of twenty-five from Phalasarna, a city 
of Crete. 
CHAP. 20.— CRETE. 
Crete itself lies from east to west, the one side facing the 
south, the other the north, and is known to fame by the 
renown of its hundred cities. Dosiades says, that it took 
its name from the nymph Crete, the daughter of Hesperides^ ; 
Anaximander,from aking of the Curetes, Philistides of Mailus 
# # # 4^ =^ . while Crates says that it was at first called Aeria, 
and after that Curetis ; and some have been of opinion 
that it had the name of Macaron^ from the serenity of its 
climate. In breadth it nowhere exceeds fifty miles, being 
widest about the middle. In length, however, it is full 270 
miles, and 589 in circumference, forming a bend towards 
the Cretan Sea, which takes its name from it. At its 
eastern extremity is the Promontory of Sammonium^, facing 
Bhodes, while towards the west it throws out that of Criu- 
metopon^, in the direction of Cyrene. 
The more remarkable cities of Crete are, Phalasarna, Etsea^, 
Cisamon^, Pergamum, Cydonia'', Minoium^, Apteron^, Panto- 
matrium, Amphimalla^^, Shithymna, Panormus, Cytaeum, A- 
poUonia, Matium^\'IIeraclea,Miletos, Ampelos, Hierapytna^", 
1 Dalecliamps suggests Hesperus. 
2 The island " of the Blessed." ^ Now Capo Salomon. 
^ From the Grreek Kpiov /xeroiTrovj "the ram's forehead" ; now called 
Capo Crio. 
^ Also called Elsea. Pococke speaks of it as a promontory called 
Chanle-burnau. ^ Hardouin calls it Chisamo. 
7 The modern Ehania. The quince derived its Latin name, " Malum 
Cydonium," from this district, to which it was indigenous. From its 
Latin name it was called melicotone by the writers of the Ehzabethan 
period. ^ Now Minolo, according to Hardouin. 
^ The port of Apteron, or Aptera, which Mr. Pashley supposes to be 
denoted by the ruins of Palseokastro ; he also thinks that its port was 
at or near the modern Kalyres. 
Now La Suda, according to Hardouin, who says that Ehithymna is 
called Ketimo ; Panormus, Panormo ; and Cytseum, Setia. 
Supposed by Ansart to have stood in the vicinity of the.modern city 
of Candia. 
^2 Strabo says that it stood on the narrowest part.of the island, opposite 
Minoa. Yestiges of it have been found at the Kastele of Hierapetra. 
Its foundation was ascribed to the Corybantes. 
