Therasia[1] was torn away, and between the two afterwards arose Automate, also called Hiera, and Thia, which in our own times came into existence in the vicinity of these islands, Ios is distant from Thera twenty-five miles.
Next to these follow Lea, Ascania[2], Anaphe[3], Hippuris, and Astypalæa[4], a free state. This island is eighty-eight miles in circumference, and 125 miles distant from Cadistus, in Crete. From Astypalræa, Platea is distant sixty miles, and Caminia thirty-eight from this last. AVe then come to the islands of Azibintha, Lanise, Tragsæa, Pharmacussa, Techedia, Chalcia[5], Calymna[6], in which is the town of Coös, Calymna, at a distance of twenty-five miles from which is Carpathum[7], which has given its name to the Carpathian Sea. The distance thence to Rhodes[8], in the direction of the south-west wind, is fifty miles. From Carpathum to Casus is seven miles, and from Casus to Sammonium, the promontory of Crete, thirty[9]. In the Euripus of Euboea, almost* at the very mouth of it, are the four islands called Petaliæ[10];
- ↑ A small island to the west of Thera, still known by the same name.
- ↑ In Lapie's map, Ascania is set down as the present Christiana.
- ↑ Now Anaphe, Namfi, or Namphio, one of the Sporades. It was celebrated for the temple of Apollo Ægletes, the fomidution of which was ascribed to the Argonauts, and of which considerable remains still exist. It abounds in partridges, as it did also in ancient times.
- ↑ Now Astropalæa, or Stamphaha. By Strabo it is called one of the Sporades, by Stephanas one of the Cyclades. It probably was favoured by the Romans for the excellence and importance of its harbours. From Hegesander we leaim that it was famous for its hares, and Pliny tells us, in B. viii. c. 59, that its mussels were (as they still are) very celebrated.
- ↑ None of these islands can be now identified, except perhaps Chalcia, also mentioned by Strabo, and now known as Karki.
- ↑ Now Kalymno, the principal island of the group, by Homer called Calydne. According to most of the editions, Winy mentions here Calydna and Calymna, making this island, which had those two names, into two islands. Although Pliny here mentions only the town of Co{{subst:o:}}s, still, in B. V. c. 36, he speaks of three others, Notium, Nisyrus, and Mendeterus. There are still some remains of antiquity to be seen here.
- ↑ Or Carpathus, now Skarpanto. It gave name to the sea between Crete and Rhodes.
- ↑ It still preserves its ancient name, and presents some interesting remains of antiquity.
- ↑ Brotier says that the distance is really fifty-two miles.
- ↑ So called from the town of Petalia, on the mainland. Ansart says that their present name is Spili.
