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ex THUCYDIDES iv. 57 init. According to Thucydides, Thyrea was situated about ID stadia from the sea, or about i-g- of a mile. According to Col. Leake (Morea, ii. 492) 'it is at least three times that distance.' Other writers suggest other sites. But there are no remains which agree with the distance mentioned in Thucydides (Bursian, Geographic von Griechenland, ii. p. 70). vi. 104 med. Gylippus sailing from Tarentum to Sicily was caught by a storm in the Terinaean gulf. But the Terinaean gulf, called also the Sinus Hipponiates, is on the west coast of Italy (Pliny, iii. 72. 5, 10). Kam tov Tepivolov koXttov cannot mean ' opposite the Terinaean gulf.' viii. 88 init. Alcibiades is described as sailing straight from Samos to Phaselis and Caunus on his way to As- pendus, and as returning to Samos from Caunus and Phaselis (108 init.). The inverse order in both cases is the true one. Dr. Arnold supposes the words to mean 'straight to Phaselis, having first touched at Caunus*; 'from Caunus, and before that from PhaseHs.' But this explanation is forced in itself, and is rendered impossible by the repetition of the wrong order in the description of the return voyage. viii. loi fin. Similarly, Larissa and Hamaxitus are men- tioned in a wrong order (see Strabo, xiii. i. 47, 48, pp. 604, 605). vi. 72 init. So Naxos and Catana. iii. 29 med. So Icarus and Myconus. vii. 19 init. Decelea is said to be distant about 120 stadia (i. e. about fourteen miles) from Athens, and about the same or a little more from Boeotia. In reality it was much nearer Boeotia. It has been suggested that Thucydides is here thinking of the far-off corner of Boeotia at Oropus, from which an important road ran through Decelea (vii. 28 init.) to Athens. Still this would only show how different his mode of expression is from that of a modern writer. viii. 26 med. Kipov Trjv Trpb MiAt/tou i'Tjcrov. But Leros