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OF PH ALAS A UN A.
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from other places are mentioned by the Anonymous
Coast-deseriber10, who says that the city was sixty stades
from the island Jusagora, and three stades from Mese;
and adds that the third island was called Myle, and was
fifty stades from the end of the promontory. These
distances led Mannert" justly to conclude that the re-
mains of Phalasarna were to be looked for to the north
of Sfinari. Pliny12 estimates the distance from the
Malean promontory to Mount Cadistus at seventy-five
miles: and Scylax13 says, ;'It is a day's sail across
from Lacedaemon to the promontory of Crete, on which
is the city of Phalasarnaadding that it is the first
city to the west of the island.
At eight we set out to visit the remains of this city,
and in an hour arrive at its site. The day is beautiful:
in all probability yesterday morning's shower is the last
we shall have for months. When once April draws to
an end, scarcely either a single shower or a threaten-
ing cloud is seen to obscure the bright blue sky of
Greece14. While in these highly favoured regions,
where nature, at least, is still seen in all her pristine
beauty, we wonder not that the ancient Cretans should
have transferred to the bright day the very name of
the Divinity15, and that poets and philosophers should
bave identified the sky and atmosphere by which they
were surrounded with the God of Heaven"1.
The plain running down to the shore contracts in
width as we leave Kavusi behind us: between Kavusi
10 In Iriarte, p. 493. or in Gail, Geogr. Gr. Min. 1. c. (Tom. n.
P- 479.) 'i Mannert, 1. c. p. 690.
12 Pliny, N. H. iv. 20. Item Cadisto a Malea Peloponnesi lxxv.
13 Scylax, p. 17. ed. Huds.
14 For many months the climate is so delightful, that we may well
compare it to that of the quiet and happy ahodes of the Gods, so beauti-
fully described in the Odyssey, (vi. 183.)
15 Macrobius, Saturnal. i. 15. Cretenses Ata Ttjv niicpav vacant.
16 My reader will remember Chrysippus's doctrine, "aethera esse eum
quem homines Jovem appellarent." (Cic. N. D. i. 15.) The sentiment is
frequently brought forward by Euripides: see Valckenaer's Diatribe,
P- 47. foil.
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OF PH ALAS A UN A.
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from other places are mentioned by the Anonymous
Coast-deseriber10, who says that the city was sixty stades
from the island Jusagora, and three stades from Mese;
and adds that the third island was called Myle, and was
fifty stades from the end of the promontory. These
distances led Mannert" justly to conclude that the re-
mains of Phalasarna were to be looked for to the north
of Sfinari. Pliny12 estimates the distance from the
Malean promontory to Mount Cadistus at seventy-five
miles: and Scylax13 says, ;'It is a day's sail across
from Lacedaemon to the promontory of Crete, on which
is the city of Phalasarnaadding that it is the first
city to the west of the island.
At eight we set out to visit the remains of this city,
and in an hour arrive at its site. The day is beautiful:
in all probability yesterday morning's shower is the last
we shall have for months. When once April draws to
an end, scarcely either a single shower or a threaten-
ing cloud is seen to obscure the bright blue sky of
Greece14. While in these highly favoured regions,
where nature, at least, is still seen in all her pristine
beauty, we wonder not that the ancient Cretans should
have transferred to the bright day the very name of
the Divinity15, and that poets and philosophers should
bave identified the sky and atmosphere by which they
were surrounded with the God of Heaven"1.
The plain running down to the shore contracts in
width as we leave Kavusi behind us: between Kavusi
10 In Iriarte, p. 493. or in Gail, Geogr. Gr. Min. 1. c. (Tom. n.
P- 479.) 'i Mannert, 1. c. p. 690.
12 Pliny, N. H. iv. 20. Item Cadisto a Malea Peloponnesi lxxv.
13 Scylax, p. 17. ed. Huds.
14 For many months the climate is so delightful, that we may well
compare it to that of the quiet and happy ahodes of the Gods, so beauti-
fully described in the Odyssey, (vi. 183.)
15 Macrobius, Saturnal. i. 15. Cretenses Ata Ttjv niicpav vacant.
16 My reader will remember Chrysippus's doctrine, "aethera esse eum
quem homines Jovem appellarent." (Cic. N. D. i. 15.) The sentiment is
frequently brought forward by Euripides: see Valckenaer's Diatribe,
P- 47. foil.
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