Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 5, section 8

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And there is Syros (the first syllable is pronounced long), where Pherecydes¹ the son of Babys was born. The Athenian Pherecydes is later than he.² The poet seems to mention this island, though he calls it Syria:“There is an island called Syria, above Ortygia.
”³

1 Fl. about 560 B.C.

2 Pherecydes of Leros (fl. in the first half of the fifth century B.C.), often called "the Athenian," wrote, among other things, a work in ten books on the mythology and antiquities of Attica.

3 Hom. Od. 15.403

Strabo. ed. H. L. Jones, The Geography of Strabo. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.

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