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1 Over against the isle of Samos.
2 B. iv. c. 23.
3 Near the city of Miletus.
4 So called from their resemblance to camels.
5 Lying before the Promontory of Trogilium, mentioned in C. 31.
6 Augustus gave their liberty to the Samians. The island is still called by the Greeks Samo, and by the Turks Susam Adassi.
7 The "Virgin's Island," if so called after Juno, as some say; but according to Strabo, it received its name from the river Parthenius.
8 From its numerous oaks.
9 From the abundance of its flowers.
10 "Of dark," or "black foliage;" in allusion probably to its cypresses.
11 "Cypress-bearing."
12 This is note improbably a compound, formed by a mistake of the copyists, of the two names, Parthenia and Aryusa, mentioned by Heraclides.
13 "The Crown." This island was the birth-place of Pythagoras.
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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ALABASTRA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), I´MBRASUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), LADE
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), MYONNE´SUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), NYMPHAEA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SAMOS
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