[19] Myrsilus tells us that Antissa
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was formerly an island, and so called because it was opposite to Lesbos,
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then named Issa. Now, however, it forms one of the towns of Lesbos.
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Some have believed that Lesbos itself has been disjoined from Mount Ida in the same way as Prochytas
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and Pithecussa
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from Misenum,
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Capreae
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from the Athenaeum, Sicily from
Rhegium,
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and Ossa from Olympus.
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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
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in Media gained that appellation from chasms made in the ground near the Gates of the Caspian
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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,
The light wave of the Euripus has divided the land of Euboea from Boeotia; separating the projecting land by a strait.