Book 9
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Some say, that Salamis is unconnected with Attica, because the priestess of Minerva Polias, who may not eat the new cheese of Attica, but the produce only of a foreign land, yet uses the Salaminian cheese. But this is a mistake, for she uses that which is brought from other islands, that are confessedly near Attica, for the authors of this custom considered all produce as foreign which was brought over sea.
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It seems as if anciently the present Salamis was a separate state, and that Megara was a part of Attica.
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On the sea-coast, opposite to Salamis, the boundaries of Megara and Attica are two mountains called Cerata, or Horns.These horns, according to Wheler, are two pointed rocks on the summit of the mountain situated between Eleusis and Megara, On one of these rocks is a tower, called by the modern Greeks Cerata or Kerata-Pyrga.
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Next is the city Eleusis,Lepsina. in which is the temple of the Eleusinian Ceres, and the Mystic Enclosure (Secos),σηκὸς. which Ictinus built,κατεσκεύασεν. capable of containing the crowd of a theatre. It was this person that builtἐποίησε. Ictinus was also the architect of the temple of Apollo Epicurius near Phigalia in Arcadia. the Parthenon in the Acropolis, in honour of Minerva, when Pericles was the superintendent of the public works. The city is enumerated among the demi, or burghs.
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Then follows the Thriasian plain, and the coast, a demus of the same name,Thria. then the promontory Amphiale,Scaramandra; from the height above Aegaleos, Xerxes witnessed the battle of Salamis. above which is a stone quarry; and then the passage across the sea to Salamis, of about 2 stadia, which Xerxes endeavoured to fill up with heaps of earth, but the sea-fight and the flight of the Persians occurred before he had accomplished it.
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There also are the Pharmacussae,Megala Kyra, Micra Kyra. two small islands, in the larger of which is shown the tomb of Circe.
