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Between Ithaca and Cephallenia is the small island Asteria (the poet calls it Asteris), which the Scepsian1 says no longer remains such as the poet describes it,“but in it are harbors safe for anchorage with entrances on either side;
”2Apollodorus, however, says that it still remains so to this day, and mentions a town Alalcomenae upon it, situated on the isthmus itself.
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1 Demetrius of Scepsis.
Strabo. ed. H. L. Jones, The Geography of Strabo. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.
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