. Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey and other countries of the East : edited from manuscript journals. Natural history. ^7*-r:?5 ^^g|i|i§^ d/^iyj. EUBCEA. In the preceding attempt to explain the Syrinx of Strabo, I have noticed only such particulars in the passage of Diodorus, as might assist in explaining the meaning of that term. I shall now observe that Diodorus has not very clearly or fully expressed what were the reasons for constructing the mole. The Chalcidians, he says, together with almost all the inhabitants of Euboea, had abandoned the Athenian interest, but upon the u
. Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey and other countries of the East : edited from manuscript journals. Natural history. ^7*-r:?5 ^^g|i|i§^ d/^iyj. EUBCEA. In the preceding attempt to explain the Syrinx of Strabo, I have noticed only such particulars in the passage of Diodorus, as might assist in explaining the meaning of that term. I shall now observe that Diodorus has not very clearly or fully expressed what were the reasons for constructing the mole. The Chalcidians, he says, together with almost all the inhabitants of Euboea, had abandoned the Athenian interest, but upon the unexpected restoration of the naval superiority of that power, in consequence of their victory over the Lacedaemonian fleet in the Hellespont, they became justly appre- hensive of measures of hostility. A proposal therefore was made to the Boeotians to concur with them in closing the passage of the Euripus, and in joining the island by these means to the opposite continent. The proposal, he adds, appeared to be so advantageous to the common interest, that the work was immediately begun and carried on with so much spirit, that in a short time it was completed. nustendit; et exercitui Euripo concitatiori ponteiii substernit, et in ipso freto castcllum sedificatum, in eoque sedentem exercitum ; He is relating the rapid successes of Boniface, Marquis of Montferrat, in Greece, at the commencement of the 13th Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Walpole, Robert, 1781-1856. London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown . ..
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