[851] Jura. Pliny, viii. 29, says the inhabitants were driven from the island by mice.
[852] B. C. 31.
[853] The title (which has been much questioned by critics) of this lost work of Aratus appears to have been, from this passage, Τὰ κατὰ λεπτόν, which Latin translators have rendered, Minuta, or Details. Casaubon is of opinion that it is the same as referred to by Callimachus, under the title Ῥήσεις λέπται, Clever Sayings. Ernest. ad Callim. Ep. 29. T. l. p. 333. The translation of the lines quoted follows the corrections of Coray.
[854] In the middle of the Cyclades, and by far the most remarkable, is Delos, celebrated for the temple of Apollo, and for its commerce. Pliny iv. 12.
[855] Under L. Mummius, B. C. 146.
[856] Thucyd. i. 36.
[857] Καὶ ὅτε συνεστήκει ἡ Κόρινθος
[858] Archelaüs and Metrophanes.
[859] Aristion, B. C. 87.
[860] Pausanias, viii. 33, § 2, (writing in the time of Hadrian,) says of Delos, that with the exception of the persons who came from Athens, for the purpose of protecting the temple and to perform the Delian ceremonies, it was deserted.