Greek Texts & Translations

Simonides, the Iambic poet; Lebinthus ^note also, and Leria (Leros). ^note Phocylides refers to Leria in these lines; the Lerians are bad, not some, but all, except Procles; but Procies is a Lerian; for the Lerians are reputed to have bad dispositions. 13

Near these islands are Patmos, ^note and the Corassia, ^note islands, situated to the west of Icaria, ^note as the latter is with respect to Samos.

Icaria has no inhabitants, but it has pastures, of which the Samians avail themselves. Notwithstanding its condition it is famous, and gives the name of Icarian to the sea in front of it, in which are situated Samos, Cos, and the islands just mentioned, ^note the Corassiae, Patmos, and Leros ^note [in Samos is the mountain the Cerceteus, more celebrated than the Ampelus, which overhangs the city of the Samians]. ^note Continuous to the Icarian sea, towards the south, is the Carpathian sea, and the Aegyptian sea to this; to the west are the Cretan and African seas. 14

In the Carpathian sea, between Cos, Rhodes, and Crete, are situated many of the Sporades, as Astypalaea, ^note Telos, ^note Chalcia, ^note and those mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue. They who occupied Nisyrus, Crapathus, Casus, and Cos,
The city of Eurypylus, and the Calydnae islands. ^note
Il. ii. 676. Except Cos, and Rhodes, of which we shall speak hereafter,