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city of their own, being attacked by the Ellopians, migrated, and settled with the Histiaeans, and although it was a single city it had both appellations, as Lacedaemon and Sparta were the same city. We have said, that the Histiaeotis in Thessaly had its name from the people who were carried away from this country by the Perrhaebi. 5

As Ellopia induced us to commence our description with Histiaea and Oreus, we shall proceed with the places continuous with these.

The promontory Cenaeum is near Oreus, and on the promontory is situated Dium, ^note and Athenae Diades, a town founded by Athenians, and overlooks the passage across the strait to Cynus. Canae in Aeolia received colonists from Dium. These places are situated near Histiea, and besides these Cerinthus, a small city, close to the sea. Near it is a river Budorus, of the same name as the mountain in Salamis on the side of Attica, 6

Carystus ^note lies at the foot of the mountain Oche, and near it are Styra ^note and Marmarium, ^note where is a quarry, from which are obtained the Carystian columns. It has a temple of Apollo Marmarinus, where there is a passage across to Hale-Araphenides. At Carystus there is found in the earth a stone, ^note which is combed like wool, and woven, so that napkins are made of this substance, which, when soiled, are thrown into the fire, and cleaned, as in the washing of linen. ^note These places are said to be inhabited by colonists from the Tetrapolis of Marathon, and by Steirieis. Styra was destroyed in the Maliac (Lamiac?) war by Phaedrus, the general of the Athenians. But the Eretrians are in possession of the territory. There is also a Carystus in Laconia, a place belonging to Aegys, towards Arcadia; from whence comes the Carystian wine, spoken of by Alcman. 7

Geraestus ^note is not mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of the Ships; it is however mentioned by him elsewhere;