Eubœa

, the largest island in the Ægean sea after Crete, now called Negropont . It is separated from the continent of Bœotia by the narrow straits of the Euripus, and was anciently known by the different names of Macris , Oche , Ellopia , Chalcis , Abantis , Asopis . It is 150 miles long, and 37 broad in its most extensive parts, and 365 in circumference. The principal town was Chalcis; and it was reported that in the neighbourhood of Chalcis the island had been formerly joined to the continent. Eubœa was subjected to the power of the Greeks; some of its cities, however, remained for some time independent. Pliny , bk. 4 , ch. 12 .— Strabo , bk. 10 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 14 , li. 155 .――One of the three daughters of the river Aster i on, who was one of the nurses of Juno. Pausanias , bk. 2 , ch. 17 .――One of Mercury’s mistre es.――A daughter of Thespius. Apollo dor us , bk. 2 .――A town of Sicily near Hybla.