Strabo Geography 1.3.19

[19] Myrsilus tells us that Antissa ¹ was formerly an island, and so called because it was opposite to Lesbos, ² then named Issa. Now, however, it forms one of the towns of Lesbos. ³ Some have believed that Lesbos itself has been disjoined from Mount Ida in the same way as Prochytas ⁴ and Pithecussa ⁵ from Misenum, ⁶ Capreae ⁷ from the Athenaeum, Sicily from Rhegium, ⁸ and Ossa from Olympus. ⁹ Many changes similar to these have occurred elsewhere. The river Ladon in Arcadia ceased for some time its flow. Duris informs us that the Rhagae ¹⁰ in Media gained that appellation from chasms made in the ground near the Gates of the Caspian ¹¹ by earthquakes, in which many cities and villages were destroyed, and the rivers underwent various changes. Ion, in his satirical composition of Omphale, has said of Euboea,