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STRABO.
BOOK I.

Rhegium,[p 1] and Ossa from Olympus.[1] Many changes similar to these have occurred elsewhere. The river Ladon in Arcadia ceased for some time its flow. Duris informs us that the Rhagæ[2] in Media gained that appellation from chasms made in the ground near the Gates of the Caspian[3] by earthquakes, in which many cities and villages were destroyed, and the rivers underwent various changes. Ion, in his satirical composition of Omphale, has said of Eubœa,

“The light wave of the Euripus has divided the land of Eubœa from Bœotia; separating the projecting land by a strait.”

20. Demetrius of Callatis, speaking of the earthquakes which formerly occurred throughout the whole of Greece, states that a great portion of the Lichadian Islands and of Kenæum[4] were submerged; that the hot springs of Ædepsus[p 2] and Thermopylæ were suppressed for three days, and that when they commenced to run again those of Ædepsus gushed from new fountains. That at Oreus[p 3] on the sea-coast the wall and nearly seven hundred houses fell at once. That the greater part of Echinus,[5] Phalara,[6] and Heraclæa of Trachis[7] were thrown down, Phalara being overturned from its very foundations. That almost the same misfortune occurred to the Lamians[p 4] and inhabitants of Larissa; that Scarpheia[8] was overthrown from its foundations, not less than one thousand seven hundred persons being swallowed up, and at

  1. ↑ Reggio.
  2. ↑ A city of Eubœa; hod. Dipso.
  3. ↑ In Eubœa, now Orio.
  4. ↑ Lamia in Thessaly.
  1. ↑ These two mountains are separated from each other by the river Penæus.
  2. ↑ Ῥαγάς, a rent or chink. This town was sixty miles from Ecbatana; it was named by the Arabs Raï, and is now in ruins. It is the Rhages in Tobias.
  3. ↑ Certain mountain defiles, now called Firouz-Koh.
  4. ↑ A western promontory of Eubœa, called by the modern Greeks Kabo Lithari. The Lichadian Islands, which now bear the name of Litada, are close by.
  5. ↑ Now Echino; belonged to Thessaly and was near the sea.
  6. ↑ Now Stillida; situated on the Bay of Zeitoun.
  7. ↑ A little town situated in a plain amongst the mountains. It received its name from a tradition that Hercules abode there during the lime that the pyre on Mount Œta was being prepared, into which he cast himself.
  8. ↑ A city of the Epi-Cnemidian Locrians in Achaia; its present name is Bondoniza.
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