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Myrsilus tells us that AntissaThat is to say, the territory opposite Issa; probably the ruins near to Kalas Limenaias. was formerly an island, and so called because it was opposite to Lesbos,The present island of Metelino. then named Issa. Now, however, it forms one of the towns of Lesbos.̔η δὲ?̓́αντισσα νῆσος ὴ͂ν ποͅότεοͅον, ὡς μυοͅσίλος φησί τῆς [δὲ] λέσβου καλουμένης ποͅὀτεοͅον?̓́ισσης, καὶ τὴν νῆσον?̓́αντισσαν καλεῖσθσι συνέβη. Our rendering of this passage, though rather free, seemed necessary to the clear explication of the Greek. Some have believed that Lesbos itself has been disjoined from Mount Ida in the same way as ProchytasProcita. and PithecussaIschia. from Misenum,Miseno, the northern cape of the Gulf of Naples. CapreaeCapri. from the Athenaeum, Sicily from Rhegium,Reggio. and Ossa from Olympus.These two mountains are separated from each other by the river Penaeus. Many changes similar to these have occurred elsewhere. The river Ladon in Arcadia ceased for some time its flow. Duris informs us that the Rhagae̔παγάς,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. in Media gained that appellation from chasms made in the ground near the Gates of the CaspianCertain mountain defiles, now called Firouz-Koh. 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 Euboea, The light wave of the Euripus has divided the land of Euboea from Boeotia; separating the projecting land by a strait.
