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1.
An island lying off Cydonia, in Crete (Plin. Nat. 4.12), which Mr. Pashley (Trav. vol. i. p. 51) takes for the rock on which the fortress of Súdha is built. (Comp. Höck, Kreta, vol. i. pp. 384, 438.)
2.
An island which Pliny (4.12) couples with ONISIA, as lying off the promontory of Itanum. These small islands are now represented by the rocks of the Grándes. [E.B.J]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.