[46] The Furni islands.
[47] Stapodia.
[48] According to Pliny, it is 716 stadia.
[49] In b. x. ch. ii. § [17], Strabo informs us that Samos was first called Melamphylus, then Anthemis, and afterwards Parthenia. These names appear in this passage in a reversed but, as appears from Pliny, b. v. 31, in their true chronological order.
[50] Either an error of our author, or he speaks of its wine in comparison with that of other islands.
[51] After the death of Pericles.
[52] Among distinguished natives of Samos, Strabo has omitted to mention Melissus the philosopher, who commanded the fleet of the island, and was contemporary with Pericles.—Plutarch, Life of Pericles.
[53] Before called Drepanum.
[54] Ischanli.
[55] Scala Nova.