The Geography of Strabo: An English Translation, with Introduction and Notes

[...]the alluvial deposits extend 40 stadia and have made Priene inland, although it was formerly on the sea" (Roller, pp. 552-553). Maiandros," however, raises another problem. Since I began reading translations of classical texts six decades ago, classicists have been replacing the once-standard Latinate forms with a Greek set of names, including place names that still look strange to those of us of a certain age.