Note 30 — BOOK II.
Rowland Smith translation
Nῆσός τις πόλις ἐστί φυτώνυμον αῖμα λαχοῦσα Ίσθμὸν ὁμοῦ καὶ πορθμὸν ἐπ' ἠπείροιο φέρουσα, Ένθ'Ἥφαιστος ἔχων χαίρει γλαυκώπιν 'Αθηνην. Κεῖθι θυηπολίην σε φἐρειν κέλομσι Ήρακλῆι.
Tyre is called by Euripides, φοίνισσα νήσος, (Phœn. 211,) was built upon a small island, 200 furlongs from the shore. Alexander took it, after having joined the island to the continent by a mole.