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PORT OF ANAPHLYSTOS. 54,
some error in the text, and that the geographer alludes to Cape
Kolias, near the Piraeus. According to Pausanias,1 Anaphlystos
owed its name and foundation to a son of Troezen. The port is
spacious and sheltered by long projecting promontories ; particu-
larly by that on its northern side, which termniates near a small
island called Prosonesi. The promontory is probably the Astypa-
laia of Strabo2 and Stephanus,3 and the island is perhaps the ancient
Eleusa.
The ruins of Anaphlystos are near the sea ; but we had not suf-
ficient time to examine the spot. The view from hence is beautifully
composed by the softly-swelling eminences which form the port, by
the Saronic Gulph, with the attractive outline of iEgina, and the
varied undulations of the Argolic mountains.
Having finished our drawing, we proceeded through a rocky
tract covered with bushes, and soon reached an extensive plain;
and thirty-four minutes from Anabisi, came to some traces of anti-
quity. After Anaphlystos, Strabo mentions the Aigineis, which
some conceive ought to be written Aigilieis, from Aigilia, a demos
in the tribe Antiochis.4
We passed a small village called Andamesi, and in ten minutes more,
some other ancient foundations. At a short distance from this place
the vale begins to narrow, and is compressed on each side by parched
and barren hills. We came to the village of Elimbos, situated in a
cultivated plain. Here are some foundations, the indications of a
demos, which some5 have imagined to be the ancient Ermos, which
was in the tribe Acamantis; but it is not noticed by Strabo. After the
Aigineis, he mentions the Lampureis, or people of Lamprea. There
were two places of this name, Upper6 and Lower, KadvwspQev and Ttts-
vepQev, one on the side of Hymettos, the other at its foot, near the sea;
3 B. 2. c. 30. '- B. 9. p. 398. 3 DeUrbib. p. 189-
4 Stephan. de Urb. p. 51. Harpocrat. Lexic. in v. AiyiKuvc. p. 16. Meurs. de pop. Attic.
s Stuart, vol. 3. p. 10. 6 Now Lambrika.
4 A 2
some error in the text, and that the geographer alludes to Cape
Kolias, near the Piraeus. According to Pausanias,1 Anaphlystos
owed its name and foundation to a son of Troezen. The port is
spacious and sheltered by long projecting promontories ; particu-
larly by that on its northern side, which termniates near a small
island called Prosonesi. The promontory is probably the Astypa-
laia of Strabo2 and Stephanus,3 and the island is perhaps the ancient
Eleusa.
The ruins of Anaphlystos are near the sea ; but we had not suf-
ficient time to examine the spot. The view from hence is beautifully
composed by the softly-swelling eminences which form the port, by
the Saronic Gulph, with the attractive outline of iEgina, and the
varied undulations of the Argolic mountains.
Having finished our drawing, we proceeded through a rocky
tract covered with bushes, and soon reached an extensive plain;
and thirty-four minutes from Anabisi, came to some traces of anti-
quity. After Anaphlystos, Strabo mentions the Aigineis, which
some conceive ought to be written Aigilieis, from Aigilia, a demos
in the tribe Antiochis.4
We passed a small village called Andamesi, and in ten minutes more,
some other ancient foundations. At a short distance from this place
the vale begins to narrow, and is compressed on each side by parched
and barren hills. We came to the village of Elimbos, situated in a
cultivated plain. Here are some foundations, the indications of a
demos, which some5 have imagined to be the ancient Ermos, which
was in the tribe Acamantis; but it is not noticed by Strabo. After the
Aigineis, he mentions the Lampureis, or people of Lamprea. There
were two places of this name, Upper6 and Lower, KadvwspQev and Ttts-
vepQev, one on the side of Hymettos, the other at its foot, near the sea;
3 B. 2. c. 30. '- B. 9. p. 398. 3 DeUrbib. p. 189-
4 Stephan. de Urb. p. 51. Harpocrat. Lexic. in v. AiyiKuvc. p. 16. Meurs. de pop. Attic.
s Stuart, vol. 3. p. 10. 6 Now Lambrika.
4 A 2