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[508] ἐσχατόωσαν, as lying on the Euboic sea. No Nisa in Boiotia was known in the classical period; hence the conjectures recorded by Strabo. The name suggests Nisaia, the port of Megara; this territory, not named elsewhere in the Catalogue, may once have belonged to Boiotia. Cf. Paus.i. 39. 5τῆι πόλει Μέγαρα ὄνομα γενέσθαι, πρότερον Νίσαι καλουμένηι”.

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