Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, BOOK VI. AN ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, HAVENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEOPLES WHO NOW EXIST, OR FORMERLY EXISTED., CHAP. 13. (12.)

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CHAP. 13. (12.)—THE ISLANDS OF THE EUXINE.

The islands of the Euxine are the Placate or Cyaneæ,¹ otherwise called Symplegades, and Apollonia, surnamed Thynias,² to distinguish it from the island of that name³ in Europe; it is four miles in circumference, and one mile distant from the mainland. Opposite to Pharnacea⁴ is Chalceritis, to which the Greeks have given the name of Aria,⁵ and consecrated it to Mars; here, they say, there were birds that used to attack strangers with blows of their wings.

1 Already mentioned in B. iv. c. 27.

2 Mentioned in c. 44 of the last Book.

3 The one lying at the mouth of the Danube, and mentioned in B. iv. c. 27.

4 Mentioned in c. 4 of the present Book. See p. 9.

5 Or "Mars' Island," also called Aretias; at this island, in the south of the Euxine, the two queens of the Amazons, Otrere and Antiope, built a temple in honour of Ares or Mars. It is thought to be the rocky islet called by the Turks Kerasunt Ada, between three and four miles from Kerasunt, the ancient Pharnacea.

The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855.

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CHAP. 13. (12.)—THE ISLANDS OF THE EUXINE.

Pliny the Elder, The Natural History
John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A., Ed.