Book 14
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From the cape, keeping the island on the right hand, and the continent on the left, the voyage to the Cleides in a straight line towards north and east is a distance of 700 stadia.
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In the interval is the city Lapathus,Lapito. with a harbour and dockyards; it was founded by Laconians and Praxander. Opposite to it was Nagidus. Then follows Aphrodisium;Near Artemisi. here the island is narrow, for over the mountains to SalamisTo the north of Tamagousta. are 70 stadia. Next is the sea-beach of the Achaeans; here Teucer, the founder of Salamis in Cyprus, being it is said banished by his father Telamon, first disembarked. Then follows the city Carpasia,Carpas. with a harbour. It is situated opposite to the promontory Sarpedon.Lissan el Cape, in Cilicia. From Carpasia there is a transit across the isthmus of 30 stadia to the Carpasian islands and the southern sea; next are a promontory and a mountain. The name of the promontory is Olympus, and upon it is a temple of Venus Acraea, not to be approached nor seen by women.
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Near and in front lie the Cleides, and many other islands; next are the Carpasian islands, and after these Salamis, the birth-place of Aristus the historian; then Arsinoë, a city with a harbour; next Leucolla, another harbour; then the promontory Pedalium, above which is a hill, rugged, lofty, and table-shaped, sacred to Venus; to this hill from Cleides are 680 stadia. Then to CitiumNear the present Larnaka. the navigation along the coast is for the greater part difficult and among bays. Citium has a close harbour. It is the birth-place of Zeno, the chief of the Stoic sect, and of Apollonius the physician. Thence to Berytus are 1500 stadia. Next is the city Amathus,Limasol. and between Citium and Berytus, a small city called Palaea, and a pap-shaped mountain, Olympus; then follows Curias,Cape Gata a promontory of a peninsular form, to which from ThroniCape Greg are 700 stadia; then the city Curium,Piscopia. with a harbour, founded by Argives.
