as it is styled by the modern Greeks, from which
the corrupt names of Archipelago, l'Archipel, and the
Arches, have been transformed by geographers and seamen,
(D'Anville, Geographie Ancienne, tom. i. p. 281. Analyse de
la Carte de la Greece, p. 60.) The numbers of monks or
caloyers in all the islands and the adjacent mountain of
Athos, (Observations de Belon, fol. 32, verso,) monte santo,
might justify the epithet of holy, 
a slight alteration from the original 
imposed by the Dorians, who, in their dialect, gave the figurative name of 
or goats, to the bounding waves,
(Vossius, apud Cellarium, Geograph. Antiq. tom. i. p. 829.)
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