94 STRABO. BOOK I. Rhegium, 1 and Ossa from Olympus. 2 Many changes similar to these have occurred elsewhere. The river Ladon in Ar- cadia ceased for some time its flow. Duris informs us that the Rhagas 3 in Media gained that appellation from chasms made in the ground near the Gates of the Caspian 4 by earth- quakes, in which many cities and villages were destroyed, and the rivers underwent various changes. Ion, in his satirical composition of Omphale, has said of Eubcea, " The light wave of the Euripus has divided the land of Euboea from Bo2otia; separating the projecting land by a strait." 20. Demetrius of Callatis, speaking of the earthquakes which formerly occurred throughout the whole of Greece, states that a great portion of the Lichadian Islands and of Kenaeum 5 were submerged ; that the hot springs 'of ./Edepsus 6 and Thermopylae were suppressed for three days, and that when they commenced to run again those of .ZEdepsus gushed from new fountains. That at Oreus 7 on the sea-coast the wall and nearly seven hundred houses fell at once. That the greater part of Echinus, 8 Phalara, 9 and Heraclaea of Trachis 10 were thrown down, Phalara being overturned from its very foundations. That almost the same misfortune occurred to the Lamians 11 and inhabitants of Larissa; that Scarpheia 12 was overthrown from its foundations, not less than one thousand seven hundred persons being swallowed up, and at I Reggio.
- These two mountains are separated from each other by the river
Penaeus. 3 'Payac, a rent or chink. This town was sixty miles from Ecbatana ; it was named by the Arabs Rai, and is now in ruins. It is the Rhages in Tobias. 4 Certain mountain defiles, now called Firouz-Koh.
- A western promontory of Euboea, called by the modern Greeks
Kabo Lithari. The Lichadian Islands, which now bear the name of Li- tada, are close by. 6 A city of Eubcea ; hod. Dipso. 7 In Euboea, now Orio. 8 Now Echino ; belonged to Thessaly and was near the sea. 9 Now Stillida ; situated on the Bay of Zeitoun. 10 A little town situated in a plain amongst the mountains. It received its name from a tradition that Hercules abode there during the lime that the pyre on Mount CEta was being prepared, into which he cast himself. II Lamia in Thessaly. 12 A city of the Epi-Cnemidian Locrians in Achaia ; its present name is Bondoniza.
