Latin Texts & Translations

Eubœa ^[Note] itself has also been rent away from Bœotia; the channel of the Euripus, which flows between them, being so narrow as to admit of the opposite shores being united by a bridge ^[Note]. At the south, this island is remarkable for its two promontories, that of Geræstus ^[Note], which looks towards Attica, and that of Caphareus ^[Note], which faces the Hellespont; on the north it has that of Cenæum ^[Note]. In no part does this island extend to a greater breadth than forty miles, while it never contracts to less than two. In length it runs along the whole coast of Bœotia, extending from Attica as far as Thessaly, a distance of 150 miles ^[Note]. In circumference it measures 365, and is distant from the Hellespont, on the side of Caphareus, 225 miles. The cities for which it was formerly famous were, Pyrrha, Porthmos, Nesos, Cerinthos ^[Note], Oreum, Dium, Ædepsos ^[Note], Ocha, and Œchalia; at present it is ennobled by those of Chalcis ^[Note]

(opposite which, on the mainland, is Aulis), Geræstus ^[Note], Eretria ^[Note], Carystus ^[Note], Oritanum, and Artemisium ^[Note]. Here are also the Fountain of Arethusa ^[Note], the river Lelantus, and the warm springs known as Ellopiæ; it is still better known, however, for the marble of Carystus. This island used formerly to be called Chalcodontis and Macris ^[Note], as we learn from Dionysius and Ephorus; according to Aristides, Macra; also, as Callidemus says, Chalcis, because copper was first discovered here. Menæchmus says that it was called Abantias ^[Note], and the poets generally give it the name of Asopis.