[550] From εὖ, well, and βοῦς, a cow. The ancient coins of the island bear the head of an ox.
[551] Mount St. Elias, 4748 feet above the level of the sea. Bochart derives the name from an eastern word signifying “narrow.”
[552] At the base of Ploko Vuno.
[553] Mount Galzades, celebrated for producing medicinal plants. Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. b. ix. c. 15 and 20.
[554] Dipso, according to Kiepert.
[555] Philipp. iii.
[556] Not the town named Histiæa-Oreus, which was on the sea-coast.
[557] Livy, b. xxxi. c. 46.
[558] διὰ τὸ ὀρείους εἶναι
[559] Kiepert accordingly places Dium near the modern Jaitra, but the Austrian map places it to the N. E. of Ploko Vuno.