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FALASARNA (Ancient city) CHANIA
In Crete, while Cydas son of Antalces was Cosmus, the Gortynians,
who sought in every way to depress the Gnossians, deprived them of a portion of
their territory called Lycastium, and assigned it to the Rhaucii, and another
portion called Diatonium to the Lyctii. But when about this time Appius and his
colleagues arrived in the island from Rome, with the view of settling the controversies
which existed among them, and addressed remonstrances to the cities of Gnossus
and Gortyn on these points, the Cretans gave in, and submitted the settlement
of their disputes to Appius. He accordingly ordered the restoration of their territory
to the Gnossians; and that the Cydoniates should receive back the hostages which
they had formerly left in the hands of Charmion, and should surrender Phalasarna,
without taking anything out of it. As to sharing in the legal jurisdiction of
the whole island, he left it free to the several cities to do so or not as they
pleased, on condition that in the latter case they abstained from entering the
rest of Crete, they and the exiles from Phalasarna who murdered Menochius and
his friends, their most illustrious citizens.
As for its (Crete) two extremities, the western is in the neighborhood of Phalasarna; it has a breadth of about two hundred stadia and is divided into two promontories (of these the southern is called Criumetopon, the northern Cimarus), whereas the eastern is Samonium
POLYRRINIA (Ancient city) CHANIA
The territory.of the Polyrrhenians borders on that of the Cydoniatae towards the west, and the temple of Dictynna is in their territory. They are about thirty stadia distant from the sea, and sixty from Phalasarna. They lived in villages in earlier times; and then Achaeans and Laconians made a common settlement, building a wall round a place that was naturally strong and faced towards the south.
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