[2663] Now Gaidurognissa. None of the other islands here mentioned seem to have been identified.
[2664] Between Eubœa and Locris. They are now called Ponticonesi.
[2665] Now Koluri. It is memorable for the naval battle fought off its coast, when Xerxes was defeated by the Greeks, B.C. 480.
[2666] Now called Lypsokutali.
[2667] Now Makronisi, or “the Long Island.” Its ancient name was also Macris. Strabo identifies it with the Homeric Cranaë, to which Paris fled with Helen.
[2668] Usually called Cea, one of the Cyclades, about thirteen miles S.E. of Sunium. Its modern name is Zea. Iulis was the most important town, and the birth-place of the poets Simonides and Bacchylides, of the sophist Prodicus, the physician Erasistratus, and the Peripatetic philosopher Ariston. Extensive remains of it still exist.
[2669] There are considerable remains of this town, called by the inhabitants Stais Palais.
[2670] Or Coresia. It was the harbour of Iulis, to which place we learn from Strabo that its inhabitants were transferred.
[2671] On the S.W. side of the island. Its ruins are inconsiderable, but retain their ancient name.
[2672] Now called Eubœa, as also Egripo, or Negropont,—a corruption of the former word and “pont,” “a bridge.”