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Title: The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893, ed
Subjects: Geography, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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of no interest.The coast is irregular, and lined with islands : the most importantpromontories were on the Argolic Gulf—Buporthmus, Mazaki, onthe S. coast; and Scyllaeum, Kavo-Skyli, at the S.E. angle. On theN.E. coast is a considerable peninsula, connected by an isthmus,only 1000 feet broad, with the territory of Troezen, and containing Est Amath.us, est celsa miM Paphus, atque Cythera,Idaligeque domus. jEji. x. 51. Hunc ego sopitum somno, super alta Cythera,Aut super Idalium, sacrata sede recondam.—Id. i. 680. Mater Amoris Nuda Cytheriacis edita fertur aquis.—Ov. Her old. vii. 59. 8 It is hence described by Sophocles as hollow Argos :— To Kolkov ApYos ^0.5 (f)vya<; TrpocrAaju-jSavet. CEd. Col. 373. 9 The epithet horse-feeding is constantly applied to it by Homer :— EvOdSe rot areLxovTeq an Apyeos ltttto^otolo.—II. ii. 287. 462 ARGOLIS. Book IV a mountain, now named CheJona, above 2000 feet high: the penin-sula was named after the town of Methana, which stood upon it.
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ENSUISH MILES. Plain of Argos. The rivers are imimportant: the chief ones are the Inachus,^ Ban- 1 The Inachus was reg-arded as the national stream of Argos ; it was suj^posedto be connected by a siibterraneons channel with the Amphilochian stream of thesame name :— ^Q yrj<; rraXaiOV Apyog, Ii^a\ov poal,OOev ttot apa? vavai \ikCaiS *Ap7j Es yrjv cTrAevcre Tpiodd Xya^jLe^vuiv cwa^. EURIP. Electr. 1. Chap. XXIII. EIYEES — LAKES — IXHABITAXTS. 463 itza, and Erasmus,^ Kephalari, in the plain of Argos—tlie formerrising on the borders of Arcadia, and flowing towards the S.E. intothe ArgoKc Gidf, receiving the Charadrus, Xeria, a little belowArgos ; the latter issuing in several large streams from the rocks ofMount Chaon to the S.W. of Argos, and flowing in a short courseacross the plain into the gnlf, receiving as a tributary the Phrixusshortly before its discharge. The celebrated Lake of Lerna lay atthe S.W. extremity of the Argive plain, and was the centre of amarshy district ^

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