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the two to which the Greeks have given the name of Pityiissae', 

 from the pine-tree^, which they produce. These islands now 

 bear the name of Ebusus, and form a federate state. They 

 are separated by a narrow strait^ of the sea, and are forty-six* 

 miles in extent. They are distant from Dianium^ 700 stadia, 

 Dianium being by land the same distance'' from New Car- 

 thage. At the same distance'' from the Pitj^ssae, lie, in the 

 open sea, the two Baleares, and, over against the river Sucro^, 

 Colubraria^. The Baleares^", so formidable in war vrith 

 their slingers^\ have received from the Greeks the name of 

 Gymnasiae. 



The larger island is 100^- miles in length, and 475 in cir- 

 cumference. It has the following towns ; Palma^^ and Pol- 

 lentia^^, enjoying the rights of Eoman citizens, Cinium^^ and 

 Tucis, with Latin rights : Bocchorum, a federate to^vn, is 

 no longer in existence. At thirty miles' distance is the 



^ The modern Iviza and Fonnentera. 



2 The Grreek for wliich is irirvs. 



'^ Less than two leagues in width. 



•* The real distance is 34 miles from the northern point of Iviza, called 

 Punta de Sen-a, to the southern point of Formentera, namely — across Iviza 

 22 miles, across the sea 5, and across Formentera 7. 



' Now Denia. ^ This is not correct : the distance is but 45 miles. 



^ This is incorrect : taken at the very greatest, the distance is only 

 522 stadia, eight to the mile. 



^ The Xucar in Spain. 



^ We more generally find it stated that the isle of Formentera, one of 

 the Pityussae, was called Colubraria. He probably refers to the islands 

 of the group about twenty leagues from the coast of Spain, now knov^^^ 

 by the name of Columbrete ; but they are not near the Xucar, from 

 wliich, as well as from the Pityussae, they are distant about seventy miles. 

 The latter islands are now generally considered as part of the group of 

 the Baleares. 



^^ Now Majorca and Minorca, with the ancient Pityussae. 



" They served as mercenaries, first under the Carthaginians and after- 

 wards under the Romans. The ancient writers generally derive the name 

 of the people from thefr skill as archers — (iaXeapel?, from /3aXXw, "to 

 throw " ; but Strabo assigns to the name a Phtpnician origin, as being 

 equivalent to the Greek yvyivi]Tai, " light-armed soldiers." It is probably 

 from their hght equipment that the Greeks gave to the islands the nanie 

 of Tvixvriaiai. Livy says that they used to go naked during the summer. 



'^ Seventy miles is the real length of Majorca, and the cfrcumference 

 is barely 250 miles. 



'^ StiU called Palnia. This and Pollentia were Roman colonies settled 

 by MeteUus. " Now Pollenza. ^' Now Sineu on the Borga. 



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