ICARIA. 71 
NAXOS. Icaria is at present one of the grand CHAP. 
resorts of these predatory rovers, who are 
always upon the watch for ships passing the 
Boccaze of Samos. Small vessels, unfortunately 
becalmed near to their haunts, have but little 
chance of escaping. Icaria is at present hardly 
known: it once gave name to the Icarian Sea 1 , 
and had two towns in the time of Pliny 8 . These 
must have been the small towns mentioned by 
Strabo*, of CEnoe, and Drepanum; called, in 
the Doric dialect, Drecanum. No traveller has 
sought for any antiquities upon Icaria; yet we 
are further informed by Stral-o 4 , that it had a 
temple of Diana, called Tauropolium; and Goltzius 
has preserved a medal of the island, with the 
legend IKAPIflN, representing Europa passing 
the sea upon a bull, with the effigy of Diana, 
armed with a bow, and accompanied by a 
hound, upon the reverse. It received the name 
of Icaria, from the story of the flight of Icarus 
from Crete, whose body, fabled to have been cast 
upon this island, after falling into the 
(1) Kijirei 'lutp!*, tip' n: T 'IxtLftti vi^uyat. Stralon. Geog. lib. liv, 
p. 915. Oxon. 1807. 
" Icarus Icariis nomina fecit aquis." 
Ovid. Trist. lib. iii. El. 4. r. 2?. 
(2) *' Cum oppidis duobus, tertio aniUso," Hist. AW. M. 
cap. 12. torn. I. p. 223. L.Bat. 1635. 
(3) Stralon. Geog. ubi supra. 
(4) Ibid. 
