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1 Now Corfu. Of its city of Corcyra only a few ruins now exist.
2 There are still some remains of it near the village called Cassopo.
3 Now Fano, or Merlere.
4 Now Paxo and Antipaxo.
5 On the contrary, they lie at the other end of the isle of Corcyra. Some of them are mere rocks, and cannot be distinguished by their ancient names. The present names of four are Sametraki, Diaplo, Boaia, and the Isle of Ulysses.
6 Now Capo Drasti.
7 Now Capo Levkimo. The islands are those of Santo Niccolo.
8 Or Islands of the Teleboans.
9 These three seem to be those now called Magnisi, Kalamota, and Kastus. These lie facing the promontory of Leucadia, the others opposite Ætolia.
10 Opposite Acarnania: by the Venetians they were called the Islands of Kurtzolari. Some of them are cultivated, others again are mere rocks.
11 Now called Cephallenia.
12 Now Zante.
13 Now Thiaki, or Cefalogna Piccola—Little Cephallenia.
14 The general opinion is, that Strabo is right in identifying this island with one of the Echinades; but it seems impossible now to say which of them was so called.
15 Sometimes confounded with Cephallenia; but, according to Virgil and Mela, as well as Pliny, they were different islands.
16 Crocylæa was a town of Acarnania, referred to by Homer; and there was a district of Ithaca called Crocyleium. Pliny is probably in error in mentioning Crocyle as an island.
17 Or the "Black Island;" probably from its thick foliage.
18 Pale, Cranii, and Proni.
19 So called from its fir-trees. It now has the name of Scopo.
20 Now Monte Stefano.
21 See c. 6 of this Book.
22 Supposed by some writers to be the same with the rocky isle now called Dyscallio. Though mentioned by Homer, its existence was disputed by many of the ancient commentators.
23 The modern Strivali and Stamphane.
24 The present Guardiania, according to Lapie.
25 According to Ansart, these were Prote, now Prodano, and Sphagia, formerly Sphacteria, before Pylos, now called Zonchio, or Old Navarino; the third being perhaps the isle of Bechli, in the Bay of Navarino.
26 Now called Sapienza, Santa Maria, and Cabrera.
27 Venetico and Formignes are the names of two of them.
28 Now Servi.
29 The modern Cerigo.
30 It is much further from the Cape of Malea or Santo Angelo than the distance here mentioned. It derived its name of Porphyris from the purple fishery established here by the Phœnicians.
31 The modern Isle of Port Tolon. Irine is the present Hipsyli according to Leake, who also identifies Ephyre with Spetzia.
32 At the south of Argolis.
33 The modern Dhoko, according to Leake. Some authorities think that Tiparenus, and not Ephyre, is the modern Spetzia.
34 Leake thinks that Colonis and Hydreia, now called Hydra, were the same island; but Kiepert thinks it the same as the small island to the south of Spetzia.
35 Now Poros.
36 These are the islands now called Moni Jorench, Kophinidia, and San Giorgio d'Arbora. It is perhaps impossible to identify them, except that Belbina is generally supposed to be the island of San Giorgio.
37 Now Kyra.
38 The modern Angistri.
39 Which name, or Eghina, it still retains.
40 See c. 9 of this Book.
41 Probably the modern Laoussa, one of this group.
42 By Brotier said to be the modern Pentenesia. The other islands here mentioned seem not to have been identified.
43 Now Cerigotto.
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