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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 41 41 Browse Search
Xenophon, Hellenica (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) 22 22 Browse Search
Diodorus Siculus, Library 3 3 Browse Search
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller) 2 2 Browse Search
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Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK V. AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST OR FORMERLY EXISTED., CHAP. 39.—LESBOS. (search)
s, Maicistus, Creon, and Olympus. It is distant seven miles and a half from the nearest point of the mainland. The islands in its vicinity are, Sandaleon, and the five called LeucæOr the White Islands.; CydoneaSo called from its fruitfulness in quinces, or "Mala Cydonia.", which is one of them, contains a warm spring. The ArginussæThese were three small islands, near the mainland of Æolis. It was off these islands that the ten generals of the Athenians gained a victory over the Spartans, B.C. 406. The modern name of these islands is said to be Janot. are four miles distant from ÆgeOne of the Leucæ, previously mentioned.; after them come PhellusaSo called from the fello\s, or "cork," which it produced. and Pedna. Beyond the Hellespont, and opposite the shore of Sigeum, lies TenedosStill known as Tenedos, near the mouth of the Hellespont. Here the Greeks were said to have concealed their fleet, to induce the Trojans to think that they had departed, and then introduce the wooden horse wi