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circumstance before alluded to, but of which CHAP. 
we had never till then heard; namely, that 
the famous Oxford Marble, generally believed 
to have been found in Faros, was, in reality, 
discovered among the Ruins of IOULIS, in Ruins of 
the Isle of Z'ia, at four hours distance from 
the town ; and he appealed to some of the inha- 
bitants, well acquainted with the circumstance, 
for the truth of the fact. Those ruins are little 
known : Tournefort has briefly noticed them ; 
but it remains for some future traveller to make 
us better acquainted with the remains of a city 
not only renowned as the birth-place of many 
celebrated men 1 , of Simonides*, of Bacchy Tides, 
of Erasistratus\ and of Tristan 6 , but particularly 
(3) *E* as. TUS 'lavA/Saj a, TI 'Sift&tions x o fiiXovuo;, xcu /5ax 
i3iA.*SiVf ixsituv. KKI plTO. rau-cc 'EotzrtfT-gtxro; a Ictr^o;, jta.) rut IK reu 
rtgix'a'roy Qi1.offi>$av 'Agitrray, a rtS fio^uffSinrou friuios Z,n\urn;* Strab, Geog. 
lib. x. p. 710. Oxon. 1807. 
(4) The antient name of ZV, KEOS, called KIA by Ptolemy, was 
sometimes abbreviated, and written KO2 ; and, owing to this circum- 
stance, the country of the Poet SIMONIDES has sometimes been con- 
founded with that of HIPPOCRATES. Slephanus Byzantinus uses the i%rd 
KO2 to signify KEO2, in speaking of the city Ivulis. 'li/X/; -ro'x/y i> K. 
(Vid.Stcph. JSi/zunt. Geog. L.Bal. 1694.) Among the Romans, it was 
also usual to abbreviate Cei.s by writing Cos. PLINY says the island had 
been called Ceos, and in his time Cea. 
(5) The famous physician who discovered, by the motion of the 
pulse, the love which Antiochiis had conceived for his mother-in-law, 
Stratonicc. He was the grandson of Aristotle. 
(6) There were two philosophers of this name : the first meationed 
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