Temporal Convection

I've got a game for you. Use Google Maps to peruse the New York State landscape of small towns and large cities (mostly the former) in a rectangle drawn between Rochester and Binghamton. Find as many places named after important religious/political figures, families, and places in classical history or scholars of that era as you can.

Here's what I was able to find:

Rome, Romulus, Ovid, Seneca, Hector, Lysander, Fabius, Galen,
Ithaca, Tyre, Cicero, Marathon, Ulysses, Virgil, Aurora, Greece,
Augustus, Cato, Hannibal, Smyrna, Scipio, Vestal, Solon, Marcellus,
Pompey, Manlius, Camillus, Caledonia, Sparta, Ossian, Junius, Macedon,
Sempronius, Aurelius, Minoa, Milo, Dundee, Dryden, Pharsalia, Arcadia,
Syracuse, Brutus, Salina, Odessa, Cincinnatus, Constantia, Utica,
Attica, Venice, Savona, Genoa, Florence, Italy

This doesn't appear to happen anywhere else in the state or anywhere in nearby states. It doesn't appear to be as prominent outside the box. Trust me, I was that bored.

I think it's safe to say, then, that the natives of Western New York were not Iroquois. They were Latin scholars.