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The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3): Literally Translated, with Notes
Strabo
Geography -- Early works to 1800
[128] Protogenes occupied seven years in painting the Jalysus, which was
afterwards transferred to the Temple of Peace at Rome. The Satyr was
represented playing on a flute, and was entitled, The Satyr
Reposing.—_Plutarch, Demetr._; _Pliny_, xxxv. 10.
[129] ὀψωνιασμοῦ, Kramer’s proposed correction, is adopted for
ὀψωνιαζόμενοι.
[130] Marseilles and Artaki.
[131] Bodrum.
[132] Il. ii. 662.
[133] Il. ii. 656.
[134] Il. ii. 678.
[135] Formerly, says Pliny, it was called Ophiussa, Asteria, Æthræa,
Trinacria, Corymbia, Pœeessa, Atabyria, from a king of that name; then
Macaria and Oloëssa. B. v. 31. To these names may be added Lindus and
Pelagia. Meineke, however, suspects the name Stadia in this passage to
be a corruption for Asteria.
[136] That is, Children of the Sun. They were seven in number,
Cercaphus, Actis, Macareus, Tenages, Triopes, Phaethon, and Ochimus,
born of the Sun and of a nymph, or, according to others, of a heroine
named Rhodus.
[137] Il. ii. 656.
[138] Hippodamus of Miletus.
[139] Naples.
[140] Majorca.
[141] Negropont.
[142] Called light-armed probably from the use of the sling, common
among the Rhodians, as it was also among the Cretans. The use of the
sling tends to prove the Rhodian origin of the inhabitants of the
Balearic islands. The Athenian expedition to Sicily (Thucyd. vi. 43) was
accompanied by 700 slingers from Rhodes.
[143] Strabo here omits to mention the Rhodian origin of Agrigentum and
Gela in Sicily.
[144] Il. ii. 668.
[145] Ol. vii. 61.
[146] Lindo.
[147] According to Strabo, Alexandria and Rhodes were upon the same
meridian.
[148] Camiro.
[149] Lanathi?
[150] Abatro.
[151] B. x. c. v. § 14.
[152] The original, which is a play upon words, cannot be rendered in
English.
[153] Called before, Eleussa, c. ii. § 2.
[154] The Sea of Marmora.
[155] Capo Volpe, or Alepo Kavo, meaning the same thing.
[156] Isle of Symi.
[157] Crio.
[158] Indschirli, or Nisari.
[159] Keramo.
[160] The word ἔργον, “a work,” suggests that there is some omission in
the text. Coraÿ supposes that the name of the architect or architects is
wanting. Groskurd would supply the words Σκόπα καὶ ἄλλων τεχνιτῶν, “the
work of Scopas and other artificers.” See Pliny, N. H. xxxvi., and
Vitruvius Præf. b. vii.
[161] Coronata.
[162] Mela says, of Argives. B. i. c. xvi. § 19.
[163] Petera, or Petra Termera.
[164] Cape Kephala.
[165] Pascha-Liman.
[166] Assem-Kalessi.
[167] Cape Arbore.
[168] Mylassa, or Marmora.
[169] Eski-hissar.
[170] Arab-hissar.
[171] This is a parody on a passage in Aristophanes. Lysis. v. 1038.
[172] Of the golden rays (around the head).
[173] Cicero. _Brut._, c. 91.
[174] Il. ii. 867, in which the reading is Νάστης, but Μέσθλης in Il.
ii. 864.
[175] Od. i. 344.
[176] Il. xv. 80.
[177] Il. v. 222.
[178] βατταρίζειν, τραυλίζειν, ψελλίζειν.
[179] κελαρύζειν, κλαγγὴ, ψόφος, βοὴ, κρότος.
[180] Chelidoniæ, in this passage, is probably an error. Groskurd adopts
the name Philomelium.
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