Kitap 10
5.12
And there is Amorgos, one of the Sporades, the home of Simonides the iambic poet; and also Lebinthos, and Leros: And so says Phocylides: ‘the Lerians are bad, not one, but every one, all except Procles; and Procles is a Lerian.’Phocylides Fr. 1 (Bergk)For the natives of the island were reproached with being unprincipled.
5.13
Nearby are both Patmos and the Corassiae; these are situated to the west of Icaria, and Icaria to the west of Samos. Now Icaria is deserted, though it has pastures, which are used by the Samians. But although it is such an isle as it is, still it is famous, and after it is named the sea that lies in front of it, in which are itself and Samos and Cos and the islands just mentioned—the Corassiae and Patmos and Leros. Famous, also, is the mountain in it, Cerceteus, more famous than the Ampelus,See 14. 1. 15. which is situated above the city of Samians.But both of these mountains are in Samos (Pliny, in 5. 37, spells the former “Cercetius”). Hence the sentence seems to be a gloss that has crept in from the margin of the text. The Icarian Sea connects with the Carpathian Sea on the south, and the Carpathian with the Aegyptian, and on the west with the Cretan and the Libyan.
