Having talked for a while with my companions, I got into a four-oared boat, with my old translator, for whom, however, I no longer had much need, but in Greek I could explain myself, and sailed, with passing traffic, straight to Korin, adhering to the shores of Attica! The owner of the boat told me that all I had to do was pretend to be someone traveling from Aein, or simply from Aegina, and I wouldn’t encounter the slightest difficulty from the quarantine guards, who, by the way, weren’t there. Happiness still did not leave me, and I calmly sailed with my Greeks. Soon we were at the island of Salamis (now Koluri) ("). It is about 12 miles from Aegina. This island is famous for its Ajax, Telamon's son, who was raised by Omir in Imad®, and even more for the battle won on its shores by Oemistocles over the Xerxes Fleet. Salamis forms an irregular figure, and it was believed that 70 or 80 stadsh length. The Aeinians and the Megarians disputed the ownership of these islands with each other for a long time. I went out to the shore of Salamis, wandered along it, and looked at what I found. There I saw that the inhabitants were fishing with a spear, just like in Russia; Pazzan writes that in this part of the island there was a temple of Idan, under which the Greeks placed trophies in memory of the victory won by Oemistokles. Now not even the slabs of the temple are visible. There was also another temple, Kikhrevs, a hero who allegedly took, at the command of Apollo, the image of a serpent and was present in this form on the Aein Fleet during the battle. In Boltno, on this spot, a small church was built in the name of St. Nicholas. Salamis was devastated by the Aeinians because during the Macedonian War it surrendered to King Cassander. In the second century, when Pausanias conquered this country, there were still the remains of an agora (market), with a temple and a statue of Ajax. Near the pier they still showed a stone on which Telamon allegedly sat when Salamis’s soldiers, under the command of his rash Ajax, boarded ships, sailing to Aulis, where they assembled the Greek Fleet against the Throne. I also saw the Foundation of the former walls of the city. Judging by us, the city was about four miles in circumference.
I couldn't measure this myself, because everything is Part. 91 around was covered with bread. Priyeotan was covered with silt and most of it dried up. On some fragments of marble there are inscriptions: one, especially, seemed to belong to ancient times, but the letters in it are not at all the same as they were used before the introduction of the Tuninic alphabet. On the other, near the pier, I read the name of Solon. It is known that this great lawgiver was born in Salamis; A statue was erected to him in the city square: there they presented him holding his hand under the mana, in that modest position in which he usually spoke to the Aein people.
On. Albanians and ploughmen live in Salamis; their village, Umpelaki (vineyard), not far from the pier, inside the island. Botanists can look for NivFtok, which, according to the stories of the ancients, was present at the very moment of Ajax’s death on the Trojan shores: it was reddish, and on its leaves, which were less lily, the same letter was depicted as is visible on the patsint.
I got into the boat and sailed to the Korine Isthmus. In Kenkhri, the harbor there, we hired donkeys and rode into the city. Nobody even asked me: where did it come from and where?
Korine retained its ancient name. It is located at the foot of Mount Geranyun, closer to the Chrysean Sea, and to the Gulf of Salamis, where I came from. It contains the houses of rather wealthy merchants, who are kept by self-interest in this unhealthy mphetf. Akrokorine, in our opinion, Vyshgorod, rules the city. Under the Turks, Christians were not allowed into it. Judging by the height of the mountain, it seems that the guns placed on it could not defend the cities. Pukeville, not without reason, said that this citadel was built, it seems, for the eagles flying above it.
I will not describe the grandeur, wealth, luxury of ancient Corinea. Readers will find in Pausani and Strabo a description of the webh of the elegant monuments of Corinea, of which almost nothing now remains.
Korine was plundered and destroyed to its foundations more than once. The Romans, in 3438, ordered their Consul Mummio to destroy the goy family completely, sell their wives and children at public auction, and leave no stone unturned. Caesar restored it, and Pausanus, who honored Corina 270 years after this restoration, found many more buildings, temples and statues in it. Emperor Adraan decorated the city with baths and provided water.