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ipsa creta, altero latere ad austrum, altero ad septentrionem versa, inter ortum occasumque porrigitur centum urbium clara fama. dosiades eam a crete nympha, hesperidis filia, anaximander a rege curetum, philistides mallotes et crates primum ae+riam dictam, deinde postea curetim; et macaron nonnulli a temperie caeli appellatam existimavere. latitudine nusquam [l] excedens et circa mediam sui partem maxime patens longitudine implet [cclxx], circuitu [dlxxxviiii], flectensque se in creticum pelagus ab ea dictum, qua longissima est, ad orientem promunturium samonium adversum rhodo, ad occidentem criu metopon cyrenas versus expellit. oppida eius insignia phalasarna, elaea, cisamon, pergamum, cydonea, minoium apteron, pantomatrium, amphimala, rhithymna, panhormum, cytaeum, apollonia, matium, heraclea, miletos, ampelos, hierapytna, lebena, hierapolis, et in mediterraneo gortyna, phaestum, gnosus, polyrrhenum, myrina, lycastos, rhamnus, lyctus, dium, asium, pyloros, rhytion, elatos, pherae, olopyxos, lasos, eleuthernae, therapnae, marathusa, tylisos; et aliorum circiter lx oppidorum memoria extat. montes cadistus, idaeus, dictynnaeus, corycus. ipsa abest promunturio suo, quod vocatur criu metopon, ut prodit agrippa, a cyrenarum promunturio phycunte [cxxv], item cadisto ... a malea peloponnesi [lxxx], a carpatho insula promunturio samonio [lx] in favonium ventum. haec inter eam et rhodum interiacet; reliquae circa eam ante peloponnesum duae corycoe, totidem mylae, et latere septentrionali dextra cretam habenti contra cydoneam leuce et duae budroe, contra matium dia, contra itanum promunturium onysia, leuce, contra hierapytnam chrysea, gaudos. eodem tractu ophiussa, butoa, ramnus circumvectisque criu metopon tres acusagorus appellatae. ante samonium promunturium phocoe, platiae, syrnides, naulochos, harmedon, zephyre.

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