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After we pass tliese, no regular order can be well observed ; 
tbe rest must therefore be mentioned indiscriminately. 
Ihere is the island of Scyros^ and that of los^, eighteen miles 
distant from Naxos, and deserving of all veneration for the 
tomb there of Homer ; it is twenty-five miles in length, and 
was formerly known by the name of Phoenice ; also Odia, 
Oletandros, and Gyara^, with a city of the same name, the 
island being twelve miles in circumference, and distant from 
Andros sixty-two. At a distance of eighty miles from 
Gryara is Syrnos, then Cynsethus, Teles'*, noted for its un- 
guents, and by Callimachus called Agathussa, Donusa^, 
Patmos^, thirty miles in circumference, the Corassise^'j Le- 
• ^ 'Now Scyro, east of Euboea, and one of the Sporades. Here Achilles 
was said to have been concealed by bis mother Thetis, in woman's 
attire. 
2 Now Nio, one of the Sporades, inaccurately called by Stephanus one 
of the Cyclades. The modern town is built on the site of the ancient 
one, of which there are some remains. It was said that Homer died 
here, on his voyage from Smyrna to Athens, and that his mother, 
Clymene, was a native of this island. In 1773, Yan Krienen, a Dutch 
nobleman, asserted that he had discovered the tomb of Homer here, with 
certain inscriptions relative to him ; but they have been generally re- 
garded by the learned as forgeries. Odia and Oletandros seem not to 
have been identified. 
3 Now called G-ioura, or Jura. It was little better than a barren rock, 
though inhabited ; but so notorious for its poverty, that its mice 
were said to be able to gnaw through iron. It was used as a place 
of banishment under the Roman emperors, whence the line of Ju- 
venal, i. 73 — 
" Aude ahquid brevibus Gryaris et car cere dignum." 
" Dare some deed deserving of the little Gyara and the gaol." It is now 
unuihabited, except by a few shepherds in the summer. 
^ Now Telos, or Piskopi, a small island in the Carpathian Sea, and one 
of the Sporades. It Hes off the coast of Caria. Syrnos appears not to 
have been identified. 
^ NearNaxos. Yirgil calls it * viridis,' or 'green,' which Servius ex- 
plains by the colour of its marble. Like G-yara, it was used as a place 
of banishment under the Roman EmYjire. In C. 22, Phny has mentioned 
Cyngethus as one of the names of Delos. 
^ Now Patmo, one of the Sporades, and west of the Promontory of 
Posidium, in Caria. To this place St. John was banished, and here lie 
wrote the Apocalypse. 
7 A group between Icaria and Samos. They are now called Phurni 
and Krusi. 
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