Strabo, Geography
H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A., Ed.

1 The passage in the original, in which all manuscripts agree, and which is the subject of much doubt, is— “ὧνにゅー κかっぱαあるふぁὶ μεγίστη νにゅーῆσος κかっぱαあるふぁὶ πぱいαあるふぁὶ πόλις ὁμώνυμος, ἡ κισθήνη.” Groskurd would read κかっぱαあるふぁὶ before ἡ, and translates,—‘Among others is Megiste an island, and a city of the same name, and Cisthene.’ Later writers, says Leake, make no mention of Cisthene; and Ptolemy, Pliny, Stephanus, agree in showing that Megiste and Dolichiste were the two principal islands on the coast of Lycia: the former word Megiste, greatest, well describing the island Kasteloryzo or Castel Rosso, as the latter word (longest) does that of Kakava. Nor is Scylax less precise in pointing out Kasteloryzo as Megiste, which name is found in an inscription copied by M. Cockerell from a rock at Castel Rosso. It would seem, therefore, that this island was anciently known by both names, (Megiste and Cisthene,) but in later times perhaps chiefly by that of Megiste.