[2573] Now Cardia, or Caridia. It was the birth-place of king Eumenes.
[2574] From καρδία, in consequence of its supposed resemblance to a heart.
[2575] Lysimachus destroyed Cardia, and, building Lysimachia, peopled it with the inhabitants.
[2576] Mannert identities it with the ancient Ægos and the modern Galata.
[2577] More generally called Ægospotamos, the “Goat River,” upon which the town of Ægos stood. It was here that Lysander defeated the Athenian fleet, B.C. 405, which put an end to the Peloponnesian war.
[2578] Antoninus, in his Itinerary, makes this distance twenty-six miles.
[2579] B. ii. c. [92]. The present Straits of Gallipoli.
[2580] Now Gallipoli, a place of considerable commercial importance.
[2581] Now Ialova; famous in Grecian poetry, with Abydos, for the loves of Hero and Leander.
[2582] Now Lamsaki.