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[21] Next to the Sea of Sicily, are the Cretan, Saronic,
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and Myrtoan Seas, comprised between Crete, Argia,
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and Attica.
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Their greatest breadth, measured from Attica, is
1200 stadia, and their length not quite double the distance. Within are included the Islands of Cythera,
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Calauria,
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Aegina,
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Salamis,
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and certain of the Cyclades.
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Adjacent to these are the Aegaean Sea,
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the Gulf of Melas,
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the Hellespont,
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the Icarian and Carpathian Seas,
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as far as Rhodes, Crete, Cnidus, and the commencement of Asia. [In these seas] are the Cyclades, the Sporades, and the islands opposite Caria, Ionia, and Aeolia, as far as the Troad, namely, Cos,
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Samos,
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Chios,
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Lesbos,
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and Tenedos;
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likewise on the Grecian side as far as Macedonia and the borders of Thrace, Euboea,
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Scyros,
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Peparethus,
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Lemnos,
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Thasos,
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Imbros,
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Samothracia,
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and numerous others, of which it is our intention to speak in detail. The length of this sea is about 4000 stadia, or rather more,
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its breadth about 2000.
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It is surrounded by the coast of Asia above mentioned, and by those of Greece from Sunium
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northwards to the Thermaic Gulf
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and the Gulfs of Macedonia,
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and as far as the Thracian Chersonesus.
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Geography. Strabo. Hans Claude Hamilton (Translator), William Falconer (Translator). London. 1854-1857.
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