[380] The Red Sea.
[381] The Red Sea and Mediterranean.
[382] Sta. Maura.
[383] Odyss. xxiv. 376.
[384] The island of Ortygia, now St. Marcian.
[385] Diakopton.
[386] Probably Bulika, according to others Trypia or Niora.
[387] Methone is the same town which Pausanias (l. ii. c. 32) names Methona, it was situated in the Argolis between Trœzene and Epidaurus. The above writer tells us that in the reign of Antigonus, son of Demetrius king of Macedonia, there was a breaking out of subterranean fires close to Methona. This event, which it is probable Strabo alludes to, occurred some where between the years 277 and 244, before the Christian era. The town still exists under its ancient name of Methona.
[388] An error in all the MSS. The Saronic Gulf is intended.
[389] Vide Strabo, b. ix. c. ii. § 34, 35.