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mentioned, is called Pelorus, faces Scylla and juts out towards 

 Italy, while Pacliynum* extends in the direction of Greece, 

 Peloponnesus being at a distance from it of 440 miles, and 

 Lilybaeum-, towards Africa, being distant 180 miles from the 

 promontory of Mercury^ and from that of Caralis in Sar- 

 dinia 190. * These promontories and sides are situate at the 

 folloA^-ing distances from each other : by land it is 186 miles 

 from Pelorus to Pachynum, from Pachynum to Lilybaeum 

 200, and from Lilybaeum to Pelorus 170 ''. 



In this island there are five colonies and sixty-three cities 

 or states. Leaving Pelorus and lacing the Ionian Sea, we 

 have the town of IMessana^, whose inliabitants are also called 

 IMamertini and enjoy the rights of Eoman citizens ; the 

 promontory of Drepanum^, the colony of Tauromenium^, 

 formerly called Xaxos, the river Asines^, and Mount ..^tna, 

 wondrous for the flames which it emits by night. Its crater 

 is twenty stadia in circumference, and from it red-hot 

 cinders are thrown as far as Tauromenium and Catina, the 

 noise being heard even at Maroneum^ and the Gemellian 

 Hills. "We then come to the three rocks of the Cyclopes^", 

 the Port of Ulysses", the colony of Catina^% and the rivers 

 Symsethus^^ and Terias ; while more inland lie the Lsestry- 

 gonian Plains. 



To these rivers succeed the towns of Leontinum^"* and 

 Megaris, the river Pantagies^^ the colony of Syracuse'*^, with 

 the fountain of Arethusa^'^, (the people in the S}Tacusan ter- 



1 Now Capo di Passaro. 2 TJ^e present Capo di Boco Marsala. 



3 Now Cape Bon. The real distance is but seventy-eight miles. 

 ■* The following are more probably the correct distances : 150, 210, 

 and 230 miles. ° Now Messina. 



6 The modem Capo di Santo Alessio. 



7 Now called Taormini ; the remains of the ancient town are very 

 considerable. ^ Probably the present Alcautai'a. 



9 Tlie present Madonia and Monte di Mele. 



^0 Now called I Fariglioni. 



^^ In modem times called " Lognina Stallone," according to Hardouin. 



^^ The modem city of Catania stands on its site. 



'3 The Fiume di Santo Leonardo, accorcUng to Hardouin, but Mannert 

 says the river Lentmi. Ansart suggests the Guarna Lunga. 



'•♦ Now Lentini. The ruins of Megaris are still to be seen, according 

 to Mannert. ^^ Now the Porcaro. 



^^ The modem city of Siracosa. 



'7 See B. xxxi. c. 30, for particulars of this fountain. 



