Strabo Geography 4.1.10

[10] Lying off this narrow pass along the coast, as you commence your journey from Marseilles, are the Stoechades islands. ¹ Three of these are considerable, and two small. They are cultivated by the people of Marseilles. Anciently they contained a garrison, placed here to defend them from the attacks of pirates, for they have good ports. After the Stoechades come [the islands of] Planasia ² and Lero, ³ both of them inhabited. In Lero, which lies opposite to Antipolis, is a temple erected to the hero Lero. There are other small islands not worth mentioning, some of them before Marseilles, others before the rest of the coast which I have been describing. As to the harbours, those of the seaport [of Forum-Julium] ⁴ and Marseilles are considerable, the others are but middling. Of this latter class is the port Oxybius, ⁵ so named from the Oxybian Ligurians.—This concludes what we have to say of this coast.