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plint's nattjeal histoet. 
[Book y. 
Hiera have also perislied. Eresos\ Pyrrlia, and tlie free 
city of Mitylene^, still survive, the last of which was a 
powerful city for a space of 1500 years. The circumference 
of the whole island is, according to Isidorus, 168 miles^, 
but the older writers say 195. Its mountains are, Lepe- 
thymnus, Ordymnus, Macistus, Creon, and Olympus. It is 
distant seven miles and a half from the nearest point of the 
mainland. The islands in its vicinity are, Sandaleon, and 
the five called Leucse'^ ; Cydonea^, which is one of them, 
contains a warm spring. The Arginussge^ are four miles 
distant from Mge'^ ; after them come Phellusa^ and Pedna. 
Eeyond the Hellespont, and opposite the shore of Sigeum, 
lies Tenedos^, also known by the names of Leucophrys^^, 
Phoenice, and Lyrnesos. It is distant from Lesbos fifty-six 
miles, and twelve and a half from Sigeum. 
CHAP. 40. (32.) THE HELLESPONT AIS'D MTSIA. 
The tide of the Hellespont now begins to run with greater 
violence, and the sea beats against the shore, undermining 
with its eddies the barriers that stand in its way, until it 
has succeeded in separating Asia from Europe. At this 
spot is the promontory which we have already mentioned 
as Trapeza^^ ; ten miles distant from which is the city of 
I Or Eressus, according to Strabo. It stood on a hill, reaching down 
to the sea. Its ruins are said to be near a place still called Eresso. It 
was the birth-place of the philosopher Theophrastus, the disciple of 
Aristotle. 2 gtill called Mitylene, or MeteHn. 
3 Strabo makes it about only 137 miles. Or the White Islands. 
5 So called from its fruitfiilness in quinces, or " Mala Cydonia.''^ 
^ These were three small islands, near the mainland of ^olis. It 
was off these islands that the ten generals of the Athenians gained 
a victory over the Spartans, B.C. 406. The modern name of these 
islands is said to be Janot. 
7 One of the Leucse, previously mentioned. 
^ So called from the (peWbs, or " cork," which it produced. 
^ StUl known as Tenedos, near the mouth of the Hellespont. Here 
the G-reeks were said to have concealed their fleet, to induce the Trojans 
to think that they had departed, and then introduce the wooden horse 
within their walls. 
10 " Having white eye-brows probably from the whiteness of its cUffs. 
II In C. 33 of the present Book. 
