Book 14
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From Chios to Lesbos is a voyage of about 400 stadia, with a south wind.
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After the Hypocremnus is Chytrium, a place where ClazomenaeKelisman. formerly stood; then the present city, having in front eight small islands, the land of which is cultivated by husbandmen.
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Anaxagoras, the natural philosopher, was a distinguished Clazomenian; he was a disciple of Anaximenes the Milesian, and master of Archelaus the natural philosopher, and of Euripides the poet.
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Next is a temple of Apollo, and hot springs, the bay of Smyrna, and the city Smyrna.
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Next is another bay, on which is situated the ancient Smyrna, at the distance of 20 stadia from the present city. After Smyrna had been razed by the Lydians, the inhabitants continued for about four hundred years to live in villages. It was then restored by Antigonus, and afterwards by Lysimachus, and at present it is the most beautiful city in Ionia.
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One portion of Smyrna is built up on a hill, but the greater part is in the plain near the harbour, the Metroum, and the Gymnasium. The division of the streets is excellent, and as nearly as possible in straight lines. There are paved roads, large quadrangular porticos, both on a level with the ground and with an upper story.
