ACTE, ACTÆA, or ATTIS

ACTE, ACTÆA, or ATTIS, ancient names of Attica. Pliny extends it to the isthmus of Corinth, so as to include Megaris. Others make this last a distinct district, because Megara was always the rival and enemy of the Athenians. If so, then Attica was bounded on the west by Megara; on the north by Boeotia, separated from it by high mountains, thro' which there was a difficult passage; on the south by the Saronic bay, with the Egean sea on the east. It was called

Atte from its maritime situation; hence Attica and Attica, and the epithets Alcæus and Atticus, Ovid. Hence also Attias for Atheniensis, Virgil.