Greek Texts & Translations

Rhegium, ^note and Ossa from Olympus. ^note Many changes similar to these have occurred elsewhere. The river Ladon in Arcadia ceased for some time its flow. Duris informs us that the Rhagae ^note in Media gained that appellation from chasms made in the ground near the Gates of the Caspian ^note by earthquakes, in which many cities and villages were destroyed, and the rivers underwent various changes. Ion, in his satirical composition of Omphale, has said of Euboea, The light wave of the Euripus has divided the land of Euboea from Boeotia; separating the projecting land by a strait. 20

Demetrius of Callatis, speaking of the earthquakes which formerly occurred throughout the whole of Greece, states that a great portion of the Lichadian Islands and of Kenaeum ^note were submerged; that the hot springs of Aedepsus ^note and Thermopylae were suppressed for three days, and that when they commenced to run again those of Aedepsus gushed from new fountains. That at Oreus ^note on the sea-coast the wall and nearly seven hundred houses fell at once. That the greater part of Echinus, ^note Phalara, ^note and Heraclaea of Trachis ^note were thrown down, Phalara being overturned from its very foundations. That almost the same misfortune occurred to the Lamians ^note and inhabitants of Larissa; that Scarpheia ^note was overthrown from its foundations, not less than one thousand seven hundred persons being swallowed up, and at