203; Herod. i 145; Strab. pp. 386–387; Paus. vii. 25. § 12; Leake, Mores, vol. iii. p. 394; Curtius,Peloponnesos, vol. i p. 472.) 2. A town in Emathia in Macedonia, and the burial-place of the Macedonian kings, is probably the same as Edessa, though some writers make them two different towns. [Edessa.] 3. A town in Euboea on the western coast N. of Chalcis, and a little S. of Orobiae. Strabo says that it was 120 stadia from Anthedon in Boeotia. It is mentioned by Homer, but had disappeared in the time of Strabo. It was celebrated for its worship of Poseidon from the earliest times; and its temple of this god still continued to exist when Strabo wrote, being situated upon a lofty mountain. The latter writer derives the name of the Aegaean Sea from this town. Leake supposes it to have stood near Limni. (Hom. Il. xiii. 21; Strab. pp. 386, 405; Steph. B. s. v.; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 275.)
2. (Aryoi: £U.AJ>acbr,Aryaic^), an Aeolian dty (Hnod. L 149), a little distance firom the coast <^ Ihda, end m the ndghboux&ood of Cume and TcBsas. It IB mentioned by Xenophon (HdUn, iv. 8. § 5) undnr the name hiytis^ which Schndder has altered into Afyo/. It snfiered from the great aartbqnake, whkh in the time of Hberius (a. d. 17) desolated 12 of the dties of Asia. (Tadt Am a. 47.) [ G. L. ]
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To the storms of the Aegaean the poets frequently allude. Thus Horace (Carm. ii. 16): Otium divos rogat in patenti prensus Aegaeo; and Virgil (Aen. xii. 365): Ac velut Edoni Boreae cum spiritus alto insonat Aegaeo. The Aegaean contained numerous islands. Of these the most numerous were in the southern part of the sea; they were divided into two principal groups, the Cyclades, lying off the coasts of Attica and Peloponnesus, and the Sporades, lying along the coasts cf Caria and Ionia. . [Cyclades; Sporades.] In the northern part of the sea were the larger islands of Euboea, Thasos and Samothrace, and off the coast of Asia those of Samos, Chios and Lesbos. The Aegaean sea was divided into: 1. Mare Thracium (b SptriKios w6moSj Hom. Il. xxiii. 230; rb 9fniticu)P wcAcryoj, Herod, vii. 176; comp. Soph. Oed. R. 197), the northern part of the Aegaean, washing the shores of Thrace and Macedonia, and extending as far S. as the northern coast of the island of Euboea. 2. Mare Myrtoum (Hor. Carm. i. 1. 14; rh MvpTwov wf Aoryor), the part of the Aeaean S. of Euboea, Attica and Argolis, which derive its name from the small island Myrtas, though others suppose it to come from Myrtilus, whom Pelops threw into this sea, or from the maiden Myrto. Pliny (iv. 11. s. 18) makes the Myrtoan sea a part of the Aegaean; but Strabo (pp. 124, 323) distinguishes between the two, representing the Aegaean as terminating at the promontory Sunnium in Attica. 3. Mare Icarium (Hor. Carm. i. 1. 15; ^Udpios w6yroi, Horn. 11 u. 145; *lKdptoy weAayot, Herod. vi. 95), the SE. part of the Aegaean along the coasts of Caria and Ionia, which derived its name from the island of Icaria, though according to tradition it was so called from Icarus, the son of Daedalus, having fallen into it. 4. Mare Creticum (t^ KpririKhtt w^Acryof, Thuciv. 53), the most southerly part of the Aegaean, N. of the island of Crete. Strabo (l. c.), however, makes this sea, as well as the Myrtoan and Icarian, distinct from the Aegaean.
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