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 312 PLINY 'S I^ATOEAL HISTOET. [Book lY. In the Asinsean Gulf there are the three Thyrides and in that of Laconia Thegauusa-, Cothon, and Cythera^, with the to^Ti of that name, the former name of which island was Porphyris. It is situate five miles from the promontory of Malea^,thus forming a strait very dangerous to navigation. In the Grulf of Argolis are Pitynsa^, Irine, and Ephyre ; opposite the territory of Hermione^, Tiparenus, Aperopia^, Colonis^, and Aristera ; and, opposite that of Troezen, Calauria^, at a distance of half a mile, Plateis^", Belbina, Lasia, and Bau- cidias. Opposite Epidanrus is Cecryphalos' and Pity- onesos^^, six miles distant from the mainland ; and, at a distance of fifteen miles from tliis last, JEgina^^, a free island, the length of which, as you sail past it, is eighteen miles. This island is twenty miles distant from Piraeus, the port of Athens : it nsed formerly to be called GEnone. Opposite the promontory of Spirsenm^^, lie Eleusa^^, Adendros^^, the two islands called Craugia?, the two Caecise, Selachusa, Cenchreis, and Aspis ; as also, in the Gulf of Megara, the four Methurides. MgiW^ lies at a distance of fifteen miles ^ Venetico and Formignes are the names of two of them. 2 Now Servi. ^ The modern Cerigo. ■* It is much fm'ther from the Cape of Malea or Santo Angelo than the distance here mentioned. It derived its name of Porphyris from the purple fishery estabhshed here by the Phoenicians. 5 The modern Isle of Port Tolon. Irine is the present Hipsyli ac- cording to Leake, who also identifies Ephyre with Spetzia. 6 At the south of Argolis. 7 The modern Dlioko, according to Leake. Some authorities tlnnk that Tiparenus, and not Ephyre, is the modern Spetzia. ^ Leake tliinks that Colonis and Hydreia, now called Hydra, were the same island ; but lUepert tlnnks it the same as the small island to the south of Spetzia. ^ Now Poros. 10 These are the islands now called Moni Jorench, Koplunidia, and San Giorgio d'Arbora. It is perhaps impossible to identify them, except that Belbina is generally supposed to be the island of San Giorgio. 1* Now Kyra. 12 The modern Angistri. '•■J Which name, or Egliina, it stUl retains. n See c. 9 of tliis Book. 1' Probably the modern Laoussa, one of this group. 1^ By Brotier said to be the modern Pentenesia. The other islands here mentioned seem not to have been identified. 17 Now Cerigotto.