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The ‘Hundred Isles’ lay between Lesbos and the mainland. Strabo (618) says their number was estimated at from twenty to forty, and that the name means ‘Islands of Apollo’, from his epithet Ἔκατος; Strabo quotes ‘Peloponnesus’ for a similar nasalization of ς.

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