[460] The site is marked by a tower called Paleopyrgo, near the modern Lebanitis.
[461] Mentioned by Athenæus, b. iii. Hot springs were generally sacred to Hercules.
[462] Diodorus Siculus asserts that it was separated from the continent by an earthquake; but statements of this kind were commonly and hastily made, where the natural appearances were favourable to them.
[463] Il. xxiii. 85.
[464] Il. xviii. 326.
[465] The ruins have been discovered by Gell on an insulated hill, near the sea-shore.
[466] Paleocastro, in Marmara, near Romani.
[467] A conjecture by Groskurd.
[468] βῆσσαι and νάπη, wooded hollows.
[469] In the island of Lesbos.