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experienced an earthquake, down to the time of M. Varro^ ; 
Mucianus however has informed us, that it has been twice 
so visited. Aristotle states that this island received its 
name from the fact of its having so suddenly made its 
appearance^ on emerging from the sea ; Agiaosthenes, how- 
ever, gives it the name of Cynthia, and others of Ortygia^, 
Astoria, Lagia, Chlamydia, Cynthus, and, from the circum- 
stance of fire having been first discovered here, Pyrpile. Its 
circumference is five miles only ; Mount Cynthus"* here 
raises his head. 
JN'ext to this island is Ehene^, which Anticlides calls by 
the name of Celadussa, and Callidemus, Artemite ; Scyros^, 
which the old writers have stated to be twenty miles in cir- 
cumference, but Mucianus 160 ; Oliaros'' ; and Paros^, with 
a city of the same name, distant from Delos thirty-eight 
miles, and famous for its marble^ ; it was first called Platea, 
1 That is, according to Yarro, whose statement is ridiculed by Seneca. 
Some of the editors, however, punctuate this passage diiferently, making 
it to mean, " the only island that has never experienced an earthquake. 
Mucianus however has informed us, that down to the time of M. Yarro, 
it has been twice so visited." 
2 From its then becoming drjXos, "plain," or "manifest." It was 
after the fall of Corinth that Delos became so famous for its commerce. 
Its bronze was in great request. 
3 From opTvE, " a quail" ; the legend being, that Latona was changed 
into that bird by Jupiter, in order to effect her escape thither from the anger 
of Juno. Its name of Asteria was derived from dcrrpov, " a star," either 
in consequence of its being devoted to the worship of the great luminary 
Apollo, or of its being considered by the gods the star of the earth. It was 
also called Lagia, from Xayws, " a hare," that animal abounding there ; 
and Cynsethus, from Kviov, " a dog," it being famous for its hounds. 
A bare granite rock, not more than 500 feet in height. The island 
is now a mass of ruins ; a great part of its remains havmg been carried 
away in the middle ages to Yenice and Constantinople. 
^ Divided by a strait of four stadia in width from Delos. Nicias con- 
nected the two islands by a bridge. Its name of Celadussa was said to 
be derived from the noise of the waves, KeXados, and of Artemite, from 
Artemis, or Diana. ^ Now Syra ; famous for its wine and corn. 
7 J^ow Antiparos ; famous for its stalactite grotto, which is not men- 
tioned by the ancient writers. 
8 Now Paro ; south of Delos and west of Naxos. The ruins of its 
town are still to be seen at the modern Paroikia. The Parian Chronicle, 
inscribed on marble, and containing a chronicle of G-recian history from 
Cecrops, B.C. 1582, to B.C. 264. was found here. It is preserved at Oxford. 
9 Chiefly obtamed from a mountain called Marpessa. 
