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the gulf which commenced at the strait between Rhium and Antirrhium, and of which the Crissæan Gulf was only a portion. The text in the above passage is very corrupt.
[280] From Sunium to the Isthmus.
[281] Libadostani.
[282] N. W. by W., 1/4 W.
[283] Literally, “by legs on each side.” Nisæa was united to Megara, as the Piræus to Athens, by two long walls.
[284] Il. ii. 546.
[285] Il. xiii. 685.
[286] See note to vol. i. page 329.
[287] This place is unknown.
[288] From a lost tragedy of Sophocles.
[289] Probably interpolated.
[290] Il. ii. 557.
[291] Il. xiii. 681.
[292] Il. iv. 327.
[293] Il. iv. 273.
[294] Il. iii. 230.
[295] Il. ii. 557.
[296] These horns, according to Wheler, are two pointed rocks on the summit of the mountain situated between Eleusis and Megara. On one of these rocks is a tower, called by the modern Greeks Cerata or Kerata-Pyrga.
[297] Lepsina.
[298] Σηκὸς.
[299] κατεσκεύασεν.
[300] ἐποίησε. Ictinus was also the architect of the temple of Apollo Epicurius near Phigalia in Arcadia.
[301] Thria.
[302] Scaramandra; from the height above Ægaleos, Xerxes witnessed the battle of Salamis.
[303] Megala Kyra, Micra Kyra.
[304] τὸ ἄστυ, the Asty, was the upper town, in opposition to the lower town, of Piræus. See Smith’s Dictionary for a very able and interesting article, Athenæ; also Kiepert’s Atlas von Hellas.
[305] Sylla took Athens, after a long and obstinate siege, on the 1st March, B. C. 86. The city was given up to rapine and plunder.
[306] Strabo thus accounts for his meagre description of the public buildings at Athens, for which, otherwise, he seems to have had no inclination.
[307] Hegesias was an artist of great celebrity, and a contemporary of Pheidias. The statues of Castor and Pollux by Hegesias, are supposed by Winkelman to be the same as those which now stand on the stairs leading to the Capitol, but this is very doubtful. Smith.
[308] In the Erechtheium.
[309] The Heroum, or temple dedicated to the daughters of Leos, who were offered up by their father as victims to appease the wrath of Minerva in a time of pestilence. The position of the temple is doubtfully placed by Smith below the Areiopagus.
[310] The well-known temple of Theseus being the best preserved of all the monuments of Greece.
[311] An eminent geographer. He made extensive journeys through Greece to collect materials for his geographical works, and as a collector of inscriptions on votive offerings and columns, he was one of the earlier contributors to the Greek Anthology. Smith.
[312] The Odeium was a kind of theatre erected by Pericles in the Ceramic quarter of the city, for the purpose of holding musical meetings. The roof, supported by columns, was constructed out of the wreck of the Persian fleet conquered at Salamis. There was also the Odeium of Regilla, but this was built in the time of the Antonines.
[313] The country was called Actica from Actæos. Parian Chronicle.
[314] Demetrius Phalereus was driven from Athens, 307 B. C., whence he retired to Thebes. The death of Casander took place 298 B. C.
[315] Aratus, the Achæan general, 245 B. C., drove from Attica the Lacedæmonian garrisons, and restored liberty to the Athenians.
[316] B. C. 87.
[317] C. Halikes.
[318] Falkadi.
[319] Elisa.
[320] Raphti.
[321] Il. iii. 443.
[322] Macronisi.
[323] Negropont.
[324] From C. Colonna to C. Mantelo.
[325] Smith gives an alphabetical list of 160 demi.
[326] Monte San Giorgio.
[327] As Mount Hymettus was always celebrated for producing the best honey, it would appear from this passage that there were silver mines in it. It appears however that the Athenians had failed to discover silver in Hymettus. It is not impossible that Strabo has adopted literally some proverb or saying of the miners, such as, “Ours is the best honey.”