12.
To the Sporades belongs Amorgos,876 the birth-place of [Pg 212]
[CAS. 488] Simonides, the Iambic poet; Lebinthus877 also, and Leria (Leros).878 Phocylides refers to Leria in these lines;
“the Lerians are bad, not some, but all, except Procles; but Procles is a Lerian;”
for the Lerians are reputed to have bad dispositions.
