Book 10
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After Ceos are NaxosNaxia. and Andros,Andro. considerable islands, and Paros, the birth-place of the poet Archilochus. ThasosTaschos. was founded by Parians, and Parium,Kemars. a city in the Propontis. In this last place there is said to be an altar worthy of notice, each of whose sides is a stadium in length. In Paros is obtained the Parian marble, the best adapted for statuary work.The marble was taken from Mt. Marpessus. Pliny xxxvi. 5; Virg Aen. 6, Marpesia cautes.
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Here also is Syros, (the first syllable is long,) where Pherecydes the son of Babys was born. The Athenian Pherecydes is younger than the latter person. The poet seems to have mentioned this island under the name of Syria; above Ortygia is an island called Syria.Od. xv. 402.Od. xv. 402.
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MyconusMyconi. is an island beneath which, according to the mythologists, lie the last of the giants, destroyed by Hercules; whence the proverb, all under one Myconus, applied to persons who collect under one title things that are disjoined by nature. Some also call bald persons Miconians, because baldness is frequent among the inhabitants of the island.Myconi calva omnis juventus. Terence, Hecy. a. 3, s. 4; Pliny, b. xi. c. 37.
