Note 179 — Chapter III

Cicero, de leg. Agrar. ii. 32; Eurip. Troad. 1097; and Hor. Od. i. 7, 2, exactly describe the geographical position of Corinth. The Phœnicians must have been there early, as a mountain at Corinth bore the name of the “Phœnician” (Ephor. ap. Steph. Byz.), and the “Phœnician Athene” was also worshipped there (Tzetz. ap Lycophr. 658.) The Corinthians, too, were the founders of Syracuse and Corcyra (Corfu) and of many ports along the coast of Greece. The principal port of Corinth (represented on a coin of Antoninus Pius) was called Cenchreæ, and is noticed in Acts xviii. 18, and Romans xvi. 1.