Anonymous Stadiasmus of the Great Sea
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§ 15.329 From Phoinix to Tarrhon 60? stades. A small city, with an anchorage. From Tarrhon to Poikilassos 60 stades. A city, with an anchorage and water. From Poikilassos to Syba 50 stades; a city with a good port. [From Syba to Lissos 30 stades] From Lissos to Kalamyde 250 stades. From Kalamyde to Kriou Metopon 30 stades, a high promontory with water and a small anchorage. From Kriou Metopon the circumnavigation to Biennos is 12 stades; a harbor and water.
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§ 15.336 From Biennos to Phalasarna 270 stades. An anchorage, trading post, old city; there is an island 60 stades distant looking east, Iousagoura, with a harbor, and a sanctuary of Apollo in the harbor. There is another island 3 stades away, called Mese, with an anchorage. The third is called Myle. The channel is deep. It has a marketplace. From Myle to Tretos 50 stades, a pierced promontory, the extremity of Crete.
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§ 15.338 From Tretos to Agneion 50 stades; it is a harbor with a sanctuary of Apollo. There is an inner gulf called Myrtilos, which has water. From Agneion to Kisamos 80 stades; a city in a gulf. There is a harbor, and water. From Kisamos to Tityros 25 stades; it is a high promontory, wooded, looking north. From Tityros to the Diktynnaion 80 stades, an anchorage by the beach. From the Diktynnaion to Koite is 170 stadia; an island with an anchorage and water. It looks toward Crete [and] to the north.
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§ 15.343 From Akoition to Kydonia is 60 stades; a city with a harbor; the entrance has rocks. From Kydonia around to Aptera the sailing is 150? stades [250]. On foot 120 stades. The place is called Minos, in which are three islands, called Leukai (White). From Minos to Amphimatrion is 150 stades, a river and sheltered harbor near it, with a tower.
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§ 15.346 From Amphimatrion to Hydramon 100 stades; [missing text] a city with a beach. The city is called Eleuthera. To go up on foot from Amphimatrion is 50 stades. From Amphimatrion to Astale 30 stades. There is a harbor to the left, with water. [From there to Eleuthera 50 stades].
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§ 15.348 From Astale to Herakleion 100 stades. A city, with a harbor and water. From there 20 stades the city Knosos; There is also an island 40 stades to the west, called Dios. From Herakleion to Cherronesos city 30 stades; it has water and an island with a tower and harbor. From Cherronesos to Olous 60 stades, a cape with a small anchorage and good water. From the land [a small island?] is 20 stades distant. From Olous to Kamara 15 stades.
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§ 15.352 From Kamara to Istros 25 stades. From Istros to Ketia cape 15 stades. It is a small anchorage, without water. From Ketia cape to the Dionysiades 300 stades; they are two islands, having a harbor and water. From the Dionysiades to the Samonion, whence we began to sail around Crete, 120 stades [50].
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