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480 BC (search for this): book 4, chapter 20
the Platiæ, the Sirnides, Naulochos, Armedon, and Zephyre. Belonging to Hellas, but still in the Ægean Sea, we have the LichadesBetween Eubœa and Locris. They are now called Ponticonesi., consisting of Scarphia, Coresa, Phocaria, and many others which face Attica, but have no towns upon them, and are consequently of little note. Opposite Eleusis, however, is the far-famed SalamisNow Koluri. It is memorable for the naval battle fought off its coast, when Xerxes was defeated by the Greeks, B.C. 480.; before it, PsyttaliaNow called Lypsokutali.; and, at a distance of five miles from Sunium, the island of HeleneNow Makronisi, or "the Long Island." Its ancient name was also Macris. Strabo identifies it with the Homeric Cranaë, to which Paris fled with Helen.. At the same distance from this last is CeosUsually called Cea, one of the Cyclades, about thirteen miles S.E. of Sunium. Its modern name is Zea. Iulis was the most important town, and the birth-place of the poets Simonides and Bacchyl