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The island is oblong, and extends nearly 1200 stadia from CenaeumC. Lithada. The mountain Lithada above the cape, rises to the height of 2837 feet above the sea. to Geraestus.C. Mantelo. Its greatest breadth is about 150 stadia, but it is irregular.The real length of the island from N. to S. is about 90 miles, its extreme breadth is 30 miles, but in one part it is not more than 4 miles across. See Smith art. Euboea. Cenaeum is opposite to Thermopylae, and in a small decree to the parts beyond Thermopylae: GeraestusCape Mantelo. and PetaliaStrabo is the only ancient author who describes a place of this name as existing in Euboea. Kiepert and the Austrian map agree in giving the name Petaliae, which may here be meant, to the Spili islands. are opposite to Sunium.
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Euboea then frontsἀντίποοͅθμος. Attica, Boeotia, Locris, and the Malienses. From its narrowness, and its length, which we have mentioned, it was called by the ancients Macris.Euboea has various names. Formerly (says Pliny, b. iv. c. 12) it was called Chalcedontis or Macris, according to Dionysius and Ephorus; Aacra, according to Aristides; Chalcis, from brass being there first discovered, according to Callidemus; Abantias, according to Menaechmus; and Asopis by the poets in general.
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It approaches nearest to the continent at Chalcis. It projects with a convex bend towards the places in Boeotia near Aulis, and forms the Euripus,The narrow channel between the island and the mainland. of which we have before spoken at length. We have also mentioned nearly all the places on either side of the Euripus, opposite to each other across the strait, both on the continent and on the island. If anything is omitted we shall now give a further explanation.
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And first, the parts lying between Aulis (Chalcis?) and the places about Geraestus are called the Hollows of Euboea, for the sea-coast swells into bays, and, as it approaches Chalcis, juts out again towards the continent.
