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EUBOEA (pronounced Ewia in the modern language), EURIPOS, or NEGROPONT, the largest island of the Grecian archipelago. It is separated from the mainland of Greece by the Euboic Sea. In general outline it is long and narrow; it is about oo m. long, and varies i ...

... of ships; and a work on etymology ('ErviioXoyLiu). APOLLODORUS, of Carystus in Euboea, one of the most important writers of the New Attic comedy, who flourished at Athens between 300 and 260 B.C. He is to be distinguished from an older Apollodorus of Gela (34 ...

... e of Hera, which stood, according to Pausanias, " on one of the lower slopes of Euboea." The term Euboea did not designate the eminence upon which the Heraeum is placed, or the mountain-top, behind the Heraeum only, but, as Pausanias distinctly indicates, the ...

... tyrant Hermias; and, remembering the fate of Socrates, he retired to Chalcis in Euboea. There, away from his school, in 322 he died. (A tomb has been found in our time inscribed with the name of Biote, daughter of Aristotle. But is this our Aristotle ?) Such i ...

... rhenian seas and Iberia. Thucydldes (vi. 3.1) says that it was Chalcidians from Euboea who first settled in Sicily. Pliny (Hist. Nat. xxxv. 12. 43) writes in the same sense, for he tells of Demaratus who came from Corinth with the artists Eucheir, Diopus, Eugr ...

... ferent phonetic laws or no necessary connexion are commonly a delusion, and EU— EUBOEA art not to be regarded, (o) Whoa words in two different languages are more nearly alike than the ordinary phonetic laws would allow, there is a strong probability that one l ...

... r instance, that the poem (783-88) which mentions a visit to Sicily, Sparta and Euboea comes from the hand of Theognis himself; but that is of little concern, for we know the man. Whether, with Harrison, we hold that Theognis wrote "all or nearly all the poems ...