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Although DelosIn the middle of the Cyclades, and by far the most remarkable, is Delos, celebrated for the temple of Apollo, and for its commerce. Pliny iv. 12. was so famous, yet it became still more so, and flourished after the destruction of Corinth by the Romans.Under L. Mummius, B. C. 146. For the merchants resorted thither, induced by the immunities of the temple, and the convenience of its harbour. It lies favourablyThucyd. i. 36. for those who are sailing from Italy and Greece to Asia. The general festival held there serves the purposes of commerce, and the Romans particularly frequented it even before the destruction of Corinth.καὶ ὅτε συνεστήκει ή κόρνθος. The Athenians, after having taken the island, paid equal attention to the affairs both of religion and of commerce. But the generalsArchelaüs and Metrophanes. of Mithridates, and the tyrant,Aristion, B. C. 87. who had occasioned the detection of (Athens from the Romans), ravaged it entirely. The Romans received the island in a desolate state on the departure of the king to his own country; and it has continued in an impoverished condition to the present time.Pausanias, viii. 33, § 2, (writing in the time of Hadrian,) says of Delos, that with the exception of the persons who came from Athens, for the purpose of protecting the temple and to perform the Delian ceremonies, it was deserted. The Athenians are now in possession of it.
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RheneiaRhena, called also Dhiles; but it is the largest of the two islands now hearing that name. Pliny says it was anciently called also Celadussa from the noise of the waves, κελαδεῖν. is a small desert island 4 stadia from Delos, where are the sepulchral monuments of the Delians. For it is not permitted to bury the dead in Delos, nor to burn a dead body there. It is not permitted even to keep a dog in Delos.
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Formerly it had the name of Ortygia.Virg. Aen. iii. 124. Linquimus Ortygis portus pelagoque volamus.
