Meropis, as Dionysius tells us; and, after that, Nymphæa. In this island there is Mount Prion. Nisyros[1], formerly called Porphyris, is supposed to have been severed from the island of Cos. We next come to the island of Caryanda[2], with a city of that name, and that of Pidosus[3], not far from Halicarnassus. In the Gulf of Ceramieus we also find Priaponnesos[4], Hipponnesos, Psyra, Mya, Lampsa, Æmyndus, Passala, Crusa, Pinnicussa, Sepiussa[5], and Melano. At a short distance from the mainland is an island which bears the name of Cinaedopolis, from the circumstance that King Alexander left behind there certain persons of a most disgraceful character.
CHAP. 37.—SAMOS.
The coast of Ionia has the islands of Trageae, Corseæ[6], and Icaros, which has been previously[7] mentioned; Lade[8], formerly called Late; and, among others of no note, the two Camelidæ[9], in the vicinity of Miletus; and the three Tro- giliæ[10], near Mycale, consisting of Philion, Argennon, and Sandalion. There is Samos also, a free[11] island, eighty-seven miles in circumference, or, according to Isidorus, 100: Aristotle tells us, that it was at first called Parthenia[12], after
- ↑ Which has been previously mentioned in this Chapter.
- ↑ In C. 29, Pliny has mentioned a Caryanda on the mainland. It is probable that there was a town on the mainland and another in the island of the same name. Leake says, that there can be little doubt that the large peninsula, towards the west end of which is the fine harbour called by the Turks Pasha Limani, is the ancient island of Caryanda, now joined to the mainland by a narrow sandy isthmus.
- ↑ The island of Hyali, near the harbour of Meffi, on the coast of Caria, according to Dupinet.
- ↑ Probably so called from the worship of the god Priapus there.
- ↑ Few, if any, of these islets can now be recognized. Sepiussa was probably so called from the abundance of the sepia, or cuttle-fish, there.
- ↑ Over against the isle of Samos.
- ↑ B. iv. c. 23.
- ↑ Near the city of Miletus.
- ↑ So called from their resemblance to camels.
- ↑ Lying before the Promontory of Trogilium, mentioned in C. 31.
- ↑ Augustus gave their liberty to the Sainians, The island is still called by the Greeks Samo, and by the Turks Susam Adassi.
- ↑ The "Virgin's Island," if so called after Juno, as some say; but according to Strabo, it received its name from the river Parthenius.
