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Minoa (Greece) (search for this): book 3, chapter 23
in Aetna have the same feature; for they lower into them objects of gold and silver and also all kinds of victims. If the fire receives and consumes them, they rejoice at the appearance of a good sign, but if it casts up what has been thrown in, they think misfortune will befall the man to whom this happens. By the road leading from Boeae to Epidaurus Limera is a sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis （Of the Lake） in the country of the Epidaurians. The city lies on high ground, not far from the sea. Here the sanctuary of Artemis is worth seeing, also that of Asclepius with a standing statue of stone, a temple of Athena on the acropolis, and of Zeus with the title Saviour in front of the harbor. A promontory called Minoa projects into the sea nearOr opposite（with Frazer）, if Minoa is to be identified with the modern Monemvasia. the town. The bay has nothing to distinguish it from all the other inlets of the sea in Laconia, but the beach here contains pebbles of prettier form and of all
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