[540] C. Mantelo.
[541] The real length of the island from N. to S. is about 90 miles, its extreme breadth is 30 miles, but in one part it is not more than 4 miles across. See Smith art. Eubœa.
[542] Cape Mantelo.
[543] Strabo is the only ancient author who describes a place of this name as existing in Eubœa. Kiepert and the Austrian map agree in giving the name Petaliæ, which may here be meant, to the Spili islands.
[544] ἀντίπορθμος
[545] Eubœa has various names. Formerly (says Pliny, b. iv. c. 12) it was called Chalcedontis or Macris, according to Dionysius and Ephorus; Macra, according to Aristides; Chalcis, from brass being there first discovered, according to Callidemus; Abantias, according to Menæchmus; and Asopis by the poets in general.
[546] The narrow channel between the island and the mainland.
[547] Il. ii. 536, 542.
[548] From Abas, great grandson of Erectheus.
[549] From Eubœa, daughter of the river Asopus and mistress of Neptune.