διὰ νήσων τὸν πλόον ἐποιεῦντο → they kept sailing through the islands
Sea of, ἡ Μαιῶτις (-ιδος) λίμνη.
Entrance to the Sea of Azov: Αὐλὼν Μαιωτικός, ὁ (Aesch., P. V. 731).
