The Geography of Strabo, Vol. V (Loeb, Jones 1917)

the silver mines. All of Euboea is subject to earthquakes, but particularly the part near the strait, which is also affected by blasts of wind through subterranean passages, just like Boeotia and other places I have mentioned at greater length before. It is said that the city which bore the same name as the island was swallowed up by a disaster of this kind. Aeschylus mentions it in his Glaucus Pontius:

The bending shore of Euboïs
About the Cenaean Zeus,
Near the very tomb of wretched Lichas.

Chalcis is also a name found in Aetolia:

And Chalcis near the sea, and rocky Calydon;

And in the present-day land of Elis:

They went past Cruni and rocky Chalcis,

when Telemachus and his companions were returning from Nestor’s to their own home.

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10. Some say that Eretria was colonized from the Triphylian Macistus by Eretrieus, while others say it was colonized from the Eretria in Athens, which is now a marketplace. There is also an Eretria near Pharsalus. In the Eretrian territory there was a city called Tamynae, which was sacred to Apollo. It is said that the temple was founded by Admetus, at whose house they say the god served as a hired laborer for a year, near the strait. In earlier times, Eretria was called Melaneïs and Arotria. Amarynthus is a village of this territory, situated seven stadia from the city walls.