Chap. 22.] ACCOUNT Or COIJKTRIES, ETC. 317 
(opposite which, on the mainland, is Aulis), Gersestus^, 
Eretria^, Carystus^, Oritanum, and Artemisium^. Here are 
also the Fountain of Arethusa'', the river Lelantus, and the 
warm springs known as Ellopise ; it is still better known, 
however, for the marble of Carystus. This island used 
formerly to be called Chalcodontis and Macris^, as we learn 
from Dionysius and Ephorus ; according to Aristides, Macra ; 
also, as Callidemus says, Chalcis, because copper was first 
discovered here. Mensechmus says that it was called 
Abantias'^, and the poets generally give it the name of 
Asopis. 
CHAP. 22. THE CTCLADES. 
Eeyond Eubcea, and out in the Myrtoan^ Sea, are numerous 
other islands ; but those more especially famous are, Grlau- 
bridge, partly of stone, partly of wood. The poet Lycophron and the 
orator Isseus were natives of tliis place, and Aristotle died here. 
1 Near the promontory of that name, now Capo Mandili. In the 
town there was a famous temple of Poseidon, or STeptune. Aceording 
to Hardouin, the modern name is lastura. 
2 One of the most powerful cities of Euboea. It was destroyed by the 
Persians under Darius, and a new town was built to the south of the old 
one. New Eretria stood, according to Leake, at the modern Kastri, and 
old Eretria in the neighbourhood of Yathy. The tragic poet Achaeus, a 
contemporary of ^schylus, was born here ; and a school of philosophy 
was founded at this place by Menedemus, a disciple of Plato. 
3 Now Karysto, on the south of the island, at the foot of Mount 
Ocha, upon which are supposed to have been its quarries of marble. 
There are but few remains of the ancient city. The historian Antigonus, 
the comic poet Apollodorus, and the physician Diodes, were natives of 
this place. 
4 Probably on the promontory of the same name. It was off this 
coast that the G-reek fleet engaged that of Xerxes, B.C. 480. 
5 There were tame fish kept in this fountain ; and its waters were 
sometimes disturbed by volcanic agency. Leake says that it has now 
totally disappeared. 
6 From the fact of its producmg copper, and of its being in shape long 
and narrow. 
7 Strabo remarks, that Homer calls its inhabitants Abantes, while he 
gives to the island the name of Euboea. The poets say that it took its 
name from the cow (Boi)s) lo, who gave birth to Epaphus on this 
island. 
s Hardouin remarks here, that Phny, Strabo, Mela, and Pausanias use 
the term " Myrtoan Sea," as meaning that portion of it which Ues 
between Crete and Attica, while Ptolemy so calls the sea which lies off 
the coast of Caria. 
