[290] Candia.
[291] Hodie The Isle of Nanfio.
[292] Now the Island of Callistè, founded by Theras the Lacedæmonian more than ten centuries before the Christian era.
[293] A name of Thessaly.
[294] The Gulf of Venice.
[295] The erroneous opinion that one of the mouths of the Danube emptied itself into the Adriatic is very ancient, being spoken of by Aristotle as a well-known fact, and likewise supported by Theopompus, Hipparchus, and many other writers.
[296] Odyssey x. 137.
[297] Odyssey xii. 70.
[298] Antiphanes of Berga, a city of Thrace. This writer was so noted for his falsehoods, that βεργαίζειν came to be a proverbial term for designating that vice.
[299] Thirty years before the time of this Damastes, Herodotus had demonstrated to the Greeks the real nature of the Arabian Gulf.