Latin Texts & Translations

The next gulf, which extends as far as Scyllæum ^[Note], is called the Argolic Gulf, being fifty miles across, and 162 in circuit. The towns upon it are, Bœa ^[Note], Epidaurus ^[Note], surnamed Limera, Zarax ^[Note], and the port of Cyphanta ^[Note]. The rivers are the Inachus ^[Note] and the Erasinus, between which lies Argos, surnamed Hippium ^[Note], situate beyond the place called Lerna ^[Note], and at a distance of two miles from the sea. Nine miles farther is Mycenæ ^[Note], and the place where, it is said, Tiryns ^[Note] stood; the site, too, of Mantinea ^[Note]. The mountains are, Artemius, Apesantus ^[Note], Asterion ^[Note], Parparus, and some others, eleven in number. The fountains are those of Niobe ^[Note], Amymone, and Psamathe.

From Scyllæum to the Isthmus of Corinth is a distance of 177 miles. We find here the towns of Hermione ^[Note], Trœzen ^[Note], Coryphasium ^[Note], and Argos, sometimes called "Ina-

chian," sometimes "Dipsian" ^[Note] Argos. Then comes the port of Schœnites ^[Note], and the Saronic Gulf, which was formerly encircled with a grove of oaks ^[Note], from which it derives its present name, oaks in ancient Greece having been so called. Upon this gulf is the town of Epidaurus, famous for its temple of Æsculapius ^[Note], the Promontory of Spiræum ^[Note], the port of Anthedus ^[Note], Bucephalus ^[Note], and then Cenchreæ, previously mentioned, on this side of the Isthmus, with its temple of Neptune ^[Note], famous for the games celebrated there every five years. So many are the gulfs which penetrate the shores of the Peloponnesus, so many the seas which howl around it. Invaded by the Ionian on the north, it is beaten by the Sicilian on the west, buffeted by the Cretan on the south, by the Ægean on the S.E., and by the Myrtoan on the N.E.; which last sea begins at the Gulf of Megara, and washes all the coast of Attica.