[4218] “Venomous,” or “deadly.” This name it most probably had in early times (and not more recently, as Pliny says), when it was covered with dense forests, the retreats of serpents and noxious reptiles.
[4219] Now known as Skarpanto.
[4220] Mentioned by Homer, Il. ii. 676. See also B. iv. c. [23] of the present work. It is described by Ross as a single ridge of mountains, of considerable height.
[4221] Signifying “sea-foam.”
[4222] Still known as Nicero.
[4223] From its production of the ‘murex,’ or ‘purple.’
[4224] Now called Symi, a small island off the south-west coast of Caria, at the mouth of the Gulf of Doris, to the west of the Promontory of Cynossema.
[4225] Now called the Island of St. Catherine, according to Ansart.
[4226] Stephanus Byzantinus mentions these islands as lying in the vicinity at Syme. Perhaps they are the group lying to the south of it, now called Siskle.
[4227] Distant about fifty miles from Carpathus, or Skarpanto. It was probably subject to Rhodes, in the vicinity of which it was situate. Its present name is Chalki.