# Naturalis Historia 4.66

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 4. Latin.

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66] ceterae Myconus cum monte Dimasto a Delo XV, Siphnus, ante Meropia et Acis appellata, circuitu XXVIII, Seriphus XV Prepesinthus, Cythnos ispaque longe clarissima et Cycladum media ac templo Apollinis et mercatu celebrata Delos, quae diu fluctuata, ut proditur, sola motum terrae non sensit ad M. Varronis aetatem; Mucianus prodidit bis concussam. hanc Aristoteles ita appellatam tradit, quoniam repente apparuerit enata, Aglaosthenes Cynthiam, alii Ortygiam, Asteriam, Lagiam, Chlamydim, Cynethum, Pyrpylen igni ibi primum reperto. cingitur V passuum, adsurgit Cynthio monte.

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