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STRABO. CASAUB. 405 Heleon, a Tanagrian village, has its name from (Hele) the marshes there. 13. After Salganeus is Anthedon, a city with a harbour, the last on the Boeotian coast towards Euboea, as the poet says, " Anthedon at the extremity." l As we proceed a little farther, there are besides two small towns, belonging to the Boeotians, Larymna, near which fhe Cephissus discharges its waters ; and farther above, Halse, of the same name as the Attic demus. Opposite to this coast is situated, it is said, JEgse 2 in Euboea, where is the temple of the ^Egagan Neptune, of which we have before spoken. There is a passage across from Anthedon to JEgae of 120 stadia, and from the other places much less than this. The temple is situated upon a lofty hill, where was once a city. Near JEgas was Orobiae. 3 In the Anthedon ian territory is the mountain Messapius, 4 which has its name from Messapus, who when he came into lapygia called it Messapia. Here is laid the scene of the fable respecting the Anthedonian Glaucus, who, it is said, was transformed into a sea-monster. 5 14. Near Anthedon is a place called Isus, and esteemed sacred, belonging to Boeotia ; it contains remains of a city, and the first syllable of Isus is short. Some persons are of opinion, that the verse ought to be written, J lcr6v TE " The sacred Isus, and the extreme Anthedon," lengthening the first syllable by poetical licence for the sake of the metre, instead of " The sacred Nisa ; " for Nisa is not to be found anywhere in Boeotia, as Apollo- dorus says in his observations on the Catalogue of the Ships ; 1 II. ii. 508. 2 Leake supposes ^Egae to have stood near Limni. Strabo, below, ch. vii. 4, says that probably the ^Egaean Sea had its name from this place. 3 Of this place, although mentioned by Thucydides, b. iii. ch. 89, very little is known, in consequence no doubt of its having almost entirely disappeared by an earthquake, which took place about 426 or 425 years B. c. * Ktypa-vuna. 5 Near Anthedon was a place -called the Leap of Glaucus, where he threw himself into the sea. Pausanias, ix. 22. The ruins of Anthedon are situated 1| mile from Lukisi. Smith*