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78 STRABO. CASAUB. 390. BOOK IX. SUMMARY. Continuation of the geography of Greece. A panegyrical account of Athens. A description of Boeotia and Thessaly, with the sea-coast. CHAPTER I. 1. HAVING completed the description of Peloponnesus, which we said was the first and least of the peninsulas of which Greece consists, we must next proceed to those which are continuous with it. 1 We described the second to be that which joins Megaris to the Peloponnesus [so that Crommyon belongs to Megaris, and not to the Corinthians] ; 2 the third to be that which is situated near the former, comprising Attica and Boeotia, some part of Phocis, and of the Locri Epicnemidii. Of these we are now to speak. Eudoxus says, that if we imagine a straight line to be drawn towards the east from the Ceraunian Mountains to Sunium, the promontory of Attica, it would leave, on the right hand, to the south, the whole of Peloponnesus, and on the left, to the north, the continuous coast from the Ceraunian 1 The peninsulas described by Strabo, are : 1. The Peloponnesus, properly so called, bounded by the Isthmus of Corinth. 2. The peninsula bounded by a line drawn from Pagae to Nisaea, and including the above. 3. The peninsula bounded by a line drawn from the recess of the Crissaean Gulf, properly so called, (the Bay of Salona,) to Thermopylae, and includes the two first. 4. The peninsula bounded by a line drawn from the Ambracic Gulf to Thermopylae and the Maliac Gulf, and includes the three former. 5. The peninsula bounded by a line drawn from the Ambracic Gulf to the recess of the Thermaic Gulf, and contains the former four penin- sulas. 2 These words are transposed from after the word Epicnemidii, as sug- gested by Cramer.