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390 STRABO. CASAUB. 616- into another, but all discharge themselves into the Cai'cus. The Cai'cus does not flow from Ida, as Bacchylides says, nor does Euripides say correctly that Marsyas " inhabited the famous Celaenae, at the extremity of Ida," for Celaenae is at a great distance from Ida, and so are the sources of the Cai'cus, for they are to be seen in the plain. There is a mountain, Temnum, which separates this and the plain of Asia ; it lies in the interior above the plain of Thebe. A river, Mysius, flows from Temnum and enters the Cai'cus below its source. Hence some persons suppose that JEschylus refers to it in the beginning of the prologue to the play of the Myrmidons, " Cai'cus, and ye Mysian streams " Near its source is a village called Gergitha, to which Attalus transferred the inhabitants of Gergitha in the Troad, after destroying their own town. CHAPTER II. 1. SINCE Lesbos, a very remarkable island, lies along and opposite to the sea-coast, extending from Lectum to Canae, and since it is surrounded by small islands, some of which lie beyond it, others in the space between Lesbos and the con- tinent, it is now proper to describe them, because they are ^Eolian places, and Lesbos is, as it were, the capital of the ^olian cities. We shall begin where we set out to describe the coast opposite to the island. 2. In sailing from Lectum to Assus the Lesbian district begins opposite to Sigrium, 1 its northern promontory. Some- where there is Methymna, 2 a city of the Lesbians, 60 stadia from the coast, between Polymedium and Assus. The whole island is 1100 stadia in circumference. The particulars are these. From Methymna to Malia, 3 the most southern promontory to those who have the island on their right hand, and to which Canae 4 lies directly opposite, are 340 stadia. Thence 1 Sigri. 2 Molyvo. 3 Cape Sta. Maria. 4 Adshane.