previous next
[10]

Lying off this narrow pass along the coast, as you commence your journey from Marseilles, are the Stœchades islands.1 Three of' these are considerable, and two small. They are cultivated by the people of Marseilles. Anciently they contained a garrison, placed here to defend them from the attacks of pirates, for they have good ports. After the Stœchades come [the islands of] Planasia2 and Lero,3 both of them in- habited. In Lero, which lies opposite to Antipolis, is a temple erected to the hero Lero. There are other small islands not worth mentioning, some of them before Marseilles, others before the rest of the coast which I have been describing. As to the harbours, those of the seaport [of Forum-Julium]4 and Marseilles are considerable, the others are but middling. Of this latter class is the port Oxybius,5 so named from the Oxybian Ligurians.—This concludes what we have to say of this coast.

1 Les Isles d' Hières, a row of islands off Marseilles.

2 Isle St. Honorat.

3 Isle Ste. Marguerite.

4 Fréjus.

5 Between the river d' Argents and Antibes.

The Geography of Strabo. Literally translated, with notes, in three volumes. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

load focus Greek (1877)
hide References (1 total)
  • Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (1):
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: