[821] Standia.
[822] Therasia, on the west of Santorino.
[823] Nio.
[824] According to Herodotus, in the Life of Homer.
[825] Sikino, anciently Œnoë. Pliny iv. 12.
[826] Cardiodissa, or Cardiana.
[827] Policandro.
[828] Argentiere. Cretæ plura genera. Ex iis Cimoliæ duo ad medicos pertinentia, candidum et ad purpurissimum inclinans. Pliny, b. v. c. 17. Cretosaque rura Cimoli. Ovid. Met. vii. 464. But from Aristophanes, the Frogs, it would appear to have been a kind of fullers’ earth.
[829] Siphanto, anciently also Meropia and Acis. There were once gold and silver mines in it, which were destroyed by inundation. There is also another proverb, which alluded to its poverty, “a Siphnian pledge,” Σίφνιος ἀῤῥαβὼν. Herodotus speaks of its being once the most wealthy of the islands, iii. 57.
[830] Milo.