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XXIV.] INSCRIPTIONS FOUND AT PALAEOKASTRON. 49
neighbouring state to Cydonia'', arid we learn from
Scylax6 that its territory extended from the northern
to the southern sea. It was here that Agamemnon,
when driven into Crete, came and offered sacrifice7. The
celebrated temple of Dictynna was in its district8, and
« appears to have been a place of peculiar sanctity
ln ancient times". Its colonization by Achaeans and
Laconians has been already mentioned10. The Polyr-
rhenians took a part in the wars against Cnossos and
Gortyna, which are related by Polybius".
We have seen12 that, ever since the revival of letters,
this Palaedkastron, in the neighbourhood of the western
Kisamos, has been supposed to be the site of Aptera.
In addition to the authors already mentioned I might
quote Andrea Cornaro, the Cretan historian of his native
island, and Ferrarius13.
Among the extensive ruins of this city, and near
°ne of its gates, Tournefort observed, inscribed on a
long piece of stone, IMP. CAESAR.; and, on another
fragment, IVII. COS. III". After mentioning this he
adds, " Tout cela marque que la ville a ete consi-
erable dans son temps, et il n'y auroit aucun doute
que Paleocastro ne fust le reste de l'ancienne ville
Aptere, n'etoit que Strabon ne la place qu'a dix
nnlles de la Canee." The naturalist's way of getting
nd of this difficulty is amusing: " Mais il n'y a rien
de bien certain touchant les mesures des anciens, ou
* See the passage of Strabo, translated at full length in Vol. i. p. 48.
Scylax, p. 18. ed. Huds. or Tom. i. p. 264. of the Geograph. Graec.
Min- ed. Gail.
Zenobius, v. 50. Stjidas, in 01 KpijTes, and Professor Hoeck,
Kreta, Vol. i. p. 27.
f Strabo, X. p. 479. UoXvpfu'lvioi' Trap' ols eaTi to t*7? Aiktuvm}*
'cpov.
Suidas, HoXvpptivov, TOTTOS K/>tj'tijs evda Tois Oeois edvou.
° See above, Vol. 1. p. 48. 11 Polybius, iv. 55.
^ See above, Vol. 1. p. 54.
Andrea Cornabo, ap. Cornel. Cret Sacr. 1. p. 123. and Ferrarius,
exic. Geograph. v. Cisamus, p. 101. ed. Lond. 1657-
Pococke, (Inscript. Antiq. P. i. c. 4. p. 43.) copied a Greek inscrip.
here: see above, Vol. 1. p. 41.
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neighbouring state to Cydonia'', arid we learn from
Scylax6 that its territory extended from the northern
to the southern sea. It was here that Agamemnon,
when driven into Crete, came and offered sacrifice7. The
celebrated temple of Dictynna was in its district8, and
« appears to have been a place of peculiar sanctity
ln ancient times". Its colonization by Achaeans and
Laconians has been already mentioned10. The Polyr-
rhenians took a part in the wars against Cnossos and
Gortyna, which are related by Polybius".
We have seen12 that, ever since the revival of letters,
this Palaedkastron, in the neighbourhood of the western
Kisamos, has been supposed to be the site of Aptera.
In addition to the authors already mentioned I might
quote Andrea Cornaro, the Cretan historian of his native
island, and Ferrarius13.
Among the extensive ruins of this city, and near
°ne of its gates, Tournefort observed, inscribed on a
long piece of stone, IMP. CAESAR.; and, on another
fragment, IVII. COS. III". After mentioning this he
adds, " Tout cela marque que la ville a ete consi-
erable dans son temps, et il n'y auroit aucun doute
que Paleocastro ne fust le reste de l'ancienne ville
Aptere, n'etoit que Strabon ne la place qu'a dix
nnlles de la Canee." The naturalist's way of getting
nd of this difficulty is amusing: " Mais il n'y a rien
de bien certain touchant les mesures des anciens, ou
* See the passage of Strabo, translated at full length in Vol. i. p. 48.
Scylax, p. 18. ed. Huds. or Tom. i. p. 264. of the Geograph. Graec.
Min- ed. Gail.
Zenobius, v. 50. Stjidas, in 01 KpijTes, and Professor Hoeck,
Kreta, Vol. i. p. 27.
f Strabo, X. p. 479. UoXvpfu'lvioi' Trap' ols eaTi to t*7? Aiktuvm}*
'cpov.
Suidas, HoXvpptivov, TOTTOS K/>tj'tijs evda Tois Oeois edvou.
° See above, Vol. 1. p. 48. 11 Polybius, iv. 55.
^ See above, Vol. 1. p. 54.
Andrea Cornabo, ap. Cornel. Cret Sacr. 1. p. 123. and Ferrarius,
exic. Geograph. v. Cisamus, p. 101. ed. Lond. 1657-
Pococke, (Inscript. Antiq. P. i. c. 4. p. 43.) copied a Greek inscrip.
here: see above, Vol. 1. p. 41.
n 2