plint's katueal histoet. 
[Book ly. 
Lebena\ and Hierapolis; and, in tlie interior, Grortyna^, Plias- 
stum, Cnossus'^, Polyrrenium, Myrina, Lycastus, Ehamnus, 
Lyctus, Dium^, Asus, Pyloros, Ehytion, Elatos, Pharse, 
Holopyxos, Lasos, Eleuthernse^, Tlierapnae, Maratliusa, and 
Tylisos ; besides some sixty others, of which the me- 
mory only exists. The mountains are those of Cadistus^, 
Ida, Dictynngeus, and Corycus''. This island is distant, at 
its promontory of Criumetopon, according to Agrippa, from 
Phycus^, the promontory of Cyrene, 125 miles ; and at Ca- 
distus, from Malea in the Peloponnesus, eighty. Prom the 
island of Carpathos^, at its promontory of Sammonium it 
lies in a westerly direction, at a distance of sixty miles ; this 
last-named island is situate between it and Rhodes. 
The other islands in its vicinity, and lying in front of the 
1 Now Lionda. 
2 Next to Cnossus in splendour and importance. Mr. Pashley places 
its site near the modern Hagliius Dheka, the place of the martyrdom of 
the ten Saints, according to tradition, in the Decian persecution. 
3 It has been remarked, that Phny is mistaken here if he intends to 
enumerate Cnossus among the towns of the interior of Crete. The only 
remains of this capital of Crete, situate on the north of the island, are 
those seen at Makro-Teikho, or the " Long Walls," so called from the 
masses of Roman brick- work there seen. 
Though an inland town, it probably stood in the vicinity of the 
headland or promontory of the same name, which is now called Kavo 
Stavro. Many of these names are utterly unknown. 
^ One of the most important towns of Crete, on the N.W. slope of 
Mount Ida, about fifty stadia from the port of Astale. Mr. Pashley 
says that some remains probably of this place are still to be seen on a 
hiU near a place called Eletherna, five miles south of the great convent 
of Arkadhi. 
6 The loftiest point of the mountain-range that traverses the island of 
Crete from west to east. Its head is covered with snow. The modern 
name is Psiloriti, looking down on the plain of Mesara. The word Ida 
is supposed to mean a mountain in which mines are worked, and the 
Idsei DactyH of Crete were probably among the first workers in iron and 
bronze. The position of Mount Cadistus, belonging to the range of 
White Mountains, has been fixed by Hoeck at Cape Spadha, the most 
northerly point of the island. It is thought that Phny and Solinus are 
in error in speaking of Cadistus and Dictynnseus as separate peaks, 
these being, both of them, names of ' the mountain of which the cape was 
formed; the latter name having been given in later times, from the 
worship and temple there of Dictynna. 
7 Now Grabusa, the N.W. promontory of Crete. 
s Now Kas-al-Sem, or Cape Rasat, in Africa. The distance, according 
to Brotier, is in reahty about 225 miles. ^ Now Skarpanto. 
