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with a city of that name, Cercise, Halone\ Commone, 
Illetia, Lepria and Ehesperia, Procusse, Bolbulge, Phanse, 
Priapos, Syce, Melane, JEnare, Sidnsa, Pele, Drymusa^, 
Anhydros, Scopelos^ Sycnssa, Marathussa, Psile, Perirreusa, 
and many others of no note. In the main sea lies the 
celebrated island of Teos, with a city'* of that name, seventy- 
one miles and a half distant from Chios, and the same from 
the Erythrse. 
In the vicinity of Smyrna are the Peristerides^, Carteria, 
Alopece, Elgeussa, Bachina, Pystira, Crommyonnesos, and 
Megale^. Pacing Troas there are the Ascanise, and the 
three islands called Platese. We find also the Lamise, the 
two islands called Plitanise, Plate, Scopelos, Gletone, Arthe- 
don, Coel^, Lagussse, and Didymse. 
CHAP. 39. — LESBOS. 
But Lesbos'', distant from Chios sixty-five miles, is the 
most celebrated of them all. It was formerly called Himerte, 
Lasia, Pelasgia, ^gira, ^thiope, and Macaria, and is 
famous for its nine cities. Of these, however, that of Pyrrha 
has been swallowed up by the sea, Arisbe^ has perished by 
an earthquake, and Methymna is now united to Antissa^ ; 
these lie in the vicinity of nine cities of Asia, along a 
coast of thirty-seven miles. The towns of Agamede and 
vicinity were forty in number ; of which PHny here gives the names of 
two-and-twenty. ^ South of Proconnesus ; now called Aloni. 
2 Near the city of Clazomenae. It is now called Yourla, according 
to Ansart. ^ Now KoutaH, according to Ansart. 
^ We learn from Strabo and other writers, that this city was on a pen- 
insula, and that it stood on the southern side of the isthmus, connecting 
Mount Mimas with the mainland of Lydia. It was the birth-place of 
Anacreon and Hecatseus. 
^ Or the " Dove Islands probably from the multitude of those birds 
found on those islands. 
^ Now called Antigona, according to Ansart, 
^ Now Mitylene, or Metelin. 
^ We find it also stated by Herodotus, that this island v/as destroyed 
by the Methymnseans. The cities of Mitylene, Methymna, Eresus, 
Pyrrha, Antissa, and Arisbe, originally formed the ^EoHan Hexapohs, 
or Confederation of Six Cities. 
^ The rains found by Pococke at Calas Limneonas, north-east of Cape 
Sigri, may be those of Antissa. This place was the birth-place of Ter- 
pander, the inventor of the seven-stringed lyre. 
