Book 10
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In the Carpathian sea, between Cos, Rhodes, and Crete, are situated many of the Sporades, as Astypalaea,Istanpolia, or Stanpalia. Telos,Tino. Chalcia,Carchi. and those mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue. They who occupied Nisyrus, Crapathus, Casus, and Cos, The city of Eurypylus, and the Calydnae islands.Il. ii. 676.Il. ii. 676. Except Cos, and Rhodes, of which we shall speak hereafter, we place the rest among the Sporades, and we mention them here although they do not lie near Europe, but Asia, because the course of my work induces me to include the Sporades in the description of Crete and of the Cyclades.
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We shall traverse in the description of Asia the considerable islands adjacent to that country, as Cyprus, Rhodes, Cos, and those situated on the succeeding line of coast, Samos, Chios, Lesbos, and Tenedos. At present we are to describe the remaining islands of the Sporades, which deserve mention.
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Astypalaea lies far out at sea, and contains a city.
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Telos, which is long, high, and narrow, in circumference about 140 stadia, with a shelter for vessels, extends along the Cnidian territory.
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Chalcia is distant from Telos 80, from Carpathus 400 stadia, and about double this number from Astypalaea. It has a settlement of the same name, a temple of Apollo, and a harbour.
