Latin Texts & Translations

At the narrow neck of the Isthmus, Hellas begins, by our people known as Græcia. The first state that presents itself is Attica, anciently called Acte ^[Note]. It touches the Isthmus in that part of it which is called Megaris, from the colony of Megara ^[Note], lying on the opposite side to Pagæ ^[Note].

These two towns are situate at the spot where the Peloponnesus projects to the greatest distance; being placed, one on each side, upon the very shoulders of Hellas as it were. The Pagæans, as well as the people of Ægosthena ^[Note], belong to the jurisdiction of Megara. On the coast there is the port of Schœnos ^[Note], the towns of Sidus ^[Note] and Cremmyon ^[Note], the

Scironian Rocks ^[Note], six miles in length, Geranea, Megara, and Eleusis ^[Note]. Œnoë ^[Note] and Probalinthos also formerly existed here; the ports of Piræus and Phalerum ^[Note] are distant from the Isthmus fifty-five miles, being united to Athens, which lies in the interior, by a wall ^[Note] five miles in length. Athens is a free city, and needs ^[Note] not a word more from us in its commendation; of fame it enjoys even more than enough. In Attica there are the Fountains of Cephisia ^[Note], Larine, Callirrhoë Enneacrunos ^[Note], and the mountains of Brilessus ^[Note], Ægialeus, Icarius, Hymettus ^[Note], Lycabettus ^[Note], and the place where Ilissus ^[Note] stood. At the distance of forty-five miles from the Piræus is the Promontory of Sunium ^[Note]. There is also the Promontory of Thoricos ^[Note]; Potamos ^[Note],

Steria ^[Note], and Brauron ^[Note], once towns, the borough of Rhamus ^[Note], the place where Marathon ^[Note] stood, the Thriasian ^[Note] plain, the town of Melite ^[Note], and Oropus ^[Note] upon the confines of Bœotia.