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EGALEO (Mountain) ATTIKI
Aegaleos (Aighaleos, Herod. viii. 90; to Aighaleon oros, Thuc. ii. 19: Skarmanga),
a range of mountains in Attica, lying between the plains of Athens and Eleusis,
from which Xerxes witnessed the battle of Salamis. (Herod.) It ended in a promontory,
called Amphiale (Amphlhale), opposite Salamis, from which it was distant only
two stadia according to Strabo. The southern part of this range near the coast
was called Corydalus or Corydallus (Kornodalhos, Korndallhos) from a demus of
this name (Strab.), and another part, through which there is a pass from the plain
of Athens into that of Eleusis, was named Poecilum (Polkhilon, Paus. i. 37. §
7.) (Leake, Demi of Attica, p. 2, seq.)
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