. h great severity (Plut. Arat. 34).The old city of Salamis stood on the S. side ofthe island, opposite Aegina; but this was after- S AT, APIA 827 galeos. (Hdt. viii. 83-90.)—2. A city of Cyprus,situated in the middle of the E. coast a littleN. of the river Pediaeus. It is said to havebeen founded by Teucer, the son of Telamon,who gave it the name of his native island, fromwhich he had been banished by his father.[Teucek.] Salamis possessed an excellentharbour, and was by far the most importantcity in the whole of Cyprus. It became s
. h great severity (Plut. Arat. 34).The old city of Salamis stood on the S. side ofthe island, opposite Aegina; but this was after- S AT, APIA 827 galeos. (Hdt. viii. 83-90.)—2. A city of Cyprus,situated in the middle of the E. coast a littleN. of the river Pediaeus. It is said to havebeen founded by Teucer, the son of Telamon,who gave it the name of his native island, fromwhich he had been banished by his father.[Teucek.] Salamis possessed an excellentharbour, and was by far the most importantcity in the whole of Cyprus. It became subjectto the Persians with the rest of the island ; butit recovered its independence about 385 underEvagoras, who extended his sovereignty overthe greater part of the island. [ Underthe Romans the whole of the E. part of theisland formed part of the territory of the time of Trajan a great part of the townwas destroyed in an insurrection of the Jews ;and under Constantine it suffered still morefrom an earthquake, which buried a large por-. Map ol Saluiuib. AAA, Persian fleet; DDI), Grecian fleet: C C C. the Persian army; I). Throne of Xerxes; E. New Salamis;F, Old Salamis ; G, the Island of Psyttaieia ; H, Peiraceus ; I, Phalerum ; 1, Athenian ships ; 2, Lacedaemonianand other Peloponnesian ships; and Eubocan ships; i, Phoenician ships; fl. Cyprian ships;6, CUlclan and Paraphylian ships; 7. Ionian ships; H, Persian ships; ii, Egyptian ships; a, Prom. Sileniae orTropaea (Cape of St. Barbara); ft. Prom. Sciradlum ; c. Prom. Budorus. wards deserted, and a new city of the samename built on the E. coast opposite Attica, ona small bay now called Ambelakia. Even thisnew city was in ruins in the time of the extremity of the S. promontory formingthis bay was the small island of Psyttalia(Lypsokutali), which is about a mile long, andfrom 200 to 300 yards wide (Hdt. viii. 95 ;Aesch. Pers. 447).—Salamis is chiefly memor-able on account of the
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