Greek Texts & Translations

affirm that certain cities of Trerus were also overwhelmed, in the neighbourhood of Thrace. Artemita, formerly one of the Echinades, ^note is now part of the mainland; the same has happened to some other of the islets near the Achelous, occasioned, it is said, in the same way, by the alluvium carried into the sea by that river, and Hesiod ^note assures us that a like fate awaits them all. Some of the Aetolian promontories were formerly islands. Asteria, ^note called by Homer Asteris, is no longer what it was. There is a rocky isle
In the mid-sea, Samos the rude between
And Ithaca, not large, named Asteris.
It hath commodious havens, into which
A passage clear opens on either side. ^note
Odyssey iv. 844. There is no good anchorage there now. Neither is there in Ithaca the cavern, nor yet the temple of the nymphs described to us by Homer. It seems more correct to attribute this to change having come over the places, than either to the ignorance or the romancing of the poet. This however, being uncertain, must be left to every man's opinion. 19

Myrsilus tells us that Antissa ^note was formerly an island, and so called because it was opposite to Lesbos, ^note then named Issa. Now, however, it forms one of the towns of Lesbos. ^note Some have believed that Lesbos itself has been disjoined from Mount Ida in the same way as Prochytas ^note and Pithecussa ^note from Misenum, ^note Capreae ^note from the Athenaeum, Sicily from