19. Myrsilus tells us that Antissa[399] was formerly an island, and so called because it was opposite to Lesbos,[400] then named Issa. Now, however, it forms one of the towns of Lesbos.[401] Some have believed that Lesbos itself has been disjoined from Mount Ida in the same way as Prochytas[402] and Pithecussa[403] from Misenum,[404] Capreæ[405] from the Athenæum, Sicily from Rhegium,[406] and Ossa from Olympus.[407] Many changes similar to these have occurred elsewhere. The river Ladon in Arcadia ceased for some time its flow. Duris informs us that the Rhagæ[408] in Media gained that appellation from chasms made in the ground near the Gates of the Caspian[409] by earthquakes, in which many cities and villages were destroyed, and the rivers underwent various changes. Ion, in his satirical composition of Omphale, has said of Eubœa, “The light wave of the Euripus has divided the land of Eubœa from Bœotia; separating the projecting land by a strait.” 20. Demetrius of Callatis, speaking of the earthquakes which formerly occurred throughout the whole of Greece, states that a great portion of the Lichadian Islands and of Kenæum[410] were submerged; that the hot springs of Ædepsus[411] and Thermopylæ were suppressed for three days, and that when they commenced to run again those of Ædepsus gushed from new fountains. That at Oreus[412] on the sea-coast the wall and nearly seven hundred houses fell at once. That the greater part of Echinus,[413] Phalara,[414] and Heraclæa of Trachis[415] were thrown down, Phalara being overturned from its very foundations. That almost the same misfortune occurred to the Lamians[416] and inhabitants of Larissa; that Scarpheia[417] was overthrown from its foundations, not less than one thousand seven hundred persons being swallowed up, and at Thronium[418] more than half that number. That a torrent of water gushed forth taking three directions, one to Scarphe and Thronium, another to Thermopylæ, and a third to the plains of Daphnus in Phocis. That the springs of [many] rivers were for several days dried up; that the course of the Sperchius[419] was changed, thus rendering navigable what formerly were highways; that the Boagrius[420] flowed through another channel; that many parts of Alope, Cynus, and Opus were injured,[421] and the castle of Œum, which commands the latter city, entirely overturned. That part of the wall of Elateia[422] was thrown down; and that at Alponus,[423] during the celebration of the games in honour of Ceres, twenty-five maidens, who had mounted a tower to enjoy the show exhibited in the port, were precipitated into the sea by the falling of the tower. They also record that a large fissure was made [by the water] through the midst of the island of Atalanta,[424] opposite Eubœa,[425] sufficient for ships to sail in; that the course of the channel was in places as broad as twenty stadia between the plains; and that a trireme being raised [thereby] out of the docks, was carried over