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The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3): Literally Translated, with Notes
Strabo
Geography -- Early works to 1800
[8] Book ii. c. v. § 10. Vol. i. p. 176, of this Translation.
[9] Chap. i. § 20.
[10] Chap. i. § 13.
[11] Chap. i. § 20.
[12] Ibid.
[13] Book ii. c. 3, § 6. Vol. i. p. 154.
[14] Herodotus iv. 85, 86.
[15] Book i. c. iv. § 6. Vol. i. p. 102, of the Translation.
[16] Book ii. c. i. § 20. Vol. i. p. 119, of the Translation.
[17] Book xiii. c. i. § 54, vol. ii. p. 380.
[18] “A Reply to the Calumnies of the Edinburgh Review against Oxford,”
page 98, by Dr. Copleston, late Bishop of Landaff. Oxford, 1810.
[19] That is, the maritime parts of Asia Minor, from Cape Coloni
opposite Mitilini to Bajas, the ancient Issus. The coast of Ionia
comprehended between Cape Coloni and the Mæander (Bojuk Mender Tschai)
forms part of the modern pachalics, Saruchan and Soghla; Caria and Lycia
are contained in the pachalic, Mentesche; Pamphylia and Lycia in those
of Teke and Itsch-ili. Mount Taurus had its beginning at the promontory
Trogilium, now Cape Samsoun, or Santa Maria opposite Samos.
[20] Jenikoi.
[21] Cape Arbora.
[22] Karadscha-Fokia.
[23] Gedis-Tschai.
[24] Derekoi.
[25] Lebedigli, Lebeditzhissar.
[26] A portion of this poem by Mimnermus is quoted in Athenæus, b. xi.
39, p. 748 of the translation, Bohn’s Class. Library.
[27] Pliny, v. 29, says the distance is 20 stadia.
[28] The Branchidæ were descendants of Branchus, who himself was
descended from Macæreus, who killed Neoptolemus, son of Achilles.
According to Herodotus, the temple was burnt by order of Darius, Herod.
v. 36; vi. 19.
[29] Pliny, v. 29, says that the distance is 180 stadia.
[30] According to Pausanias, vii. 2, a friend of Sarpedon, named
Miletus, conducted the colony from Crete, founded Miletus, and gave his
name to it. Before his arrival the place bore the name of Anactoria, and
more anciently Lelegis.
[31] More than 80, according to Pliny, v. 29.
[32] To be well.
[33] Hence the English weal, the mark of a stripe.
[34] Od. xxiv. 402.
[35] Coraÿ, who is followed by Groskurd, supposes the words “and Cadmus”
to be here omitted. Kramer considers this correction to be very
doubtful; see b. i. c. ii. § 6.
[36] Chandler says that the Tragææ were sand-banks or shallows.
[37] Bafi.
[38] Il. ii. 868.
[39] ἐν ὕψει, according to Groskurd’s emendation, in place of ἐν ὄψει.
[40] Derekoi.
[41] Two other towns, Percote and Palæscepsis, were also given to
Themistocles, the first to supply him with dress, the second with
bed-room furniture.—_Plutarch, Life of Themistocles._
[42] Aineh-Basar.
[43] Samsun.
[44] Samsun Dagh.
[45] Cape Santa Maria.
[46] The Furni islands.
[47] Stapodia.
[48] According to Pliny, it is 716 stadia.
[49] In b. x. ch. ii. § 17, Strabo informs us that Samos was first
called Melamphylus, then Anthemis, and afterwards Parthenia. These names
appear in this passage in a reversed but, as appears from Pliny, b. v.
31, in their true chronological order.
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