[470] Probably Thyros, a place situated close to the sea, just at the boundary of the two countries.
[471] Oropo, on the confines of Attica and Bœotia.
[472] Aristotle was the giver of this sage counsel.
[473] A people of Asia.
[474] The Strait of Messina.
[475] The Gulf of Aïas. The town of Aias has replaced Issus, at the eastern extremity of the Mediterranean.
[476] The Mediterranean.
[477] That is, the Mediterranean on the coast of Syria.
[478] Strabo does not here mean the Caucasus or Balkan, but the mountains which stretch from Persia to Cochin China. At a later period the several chains were known to the Greeks by the names of Paropamisus, Emodi Montes, Imaus, &c.
[479] Samsun.