86 plint's natural history. [BookYI. 



region of Dabanegoris. Mount Orsa, with a harbour, the gulf of 

 Duutus, with numerous islands, Mount Tricoryphos,^^ the region 

 of Cardaleon, and the islands called Solanades, Cachinna, and 

 that of the Ichthj^ophagi. "We then find the Clari, the shore 

 of Mamaeum, on which there are gold mines, the region of Ca- 

 nauna, the nations of the Apitami and the Casani, the island of 

 Devade, the fountain of Coralis, the Carphati, the islands of 

 Calaeu and Amnamethus, and the nation of the Darrae. Also, 

 the island of Chelonitis,^'' numerous islands of Ichthyophagi, 

 the deserts of Odanda, Basa, many islands of the Sabasi, the 

 rivers Thanar and Amnume, the islands of Dorice, and the 

 fountains of Daulotos and Dora. We find also the islands of 

 Pteros, Labatanis, Coboris, and Sambrachate, with a town of 

 the same name^^ on the mainland. Lying to the south are a 

 great number of islands, the largest of which is Camari ; also 

 the river Musecros, and the port of Laupas. We then come 

 to the Sabaei, a nation of Scenitae,^^ with numerous islands, and 

 the city of Acila,^^ which is their mart, and from which persons 

 embark for India. We next come to the region of Amithos- 

 cutta, Damnia, the Greater and the Lesser Mizi, and the 

 Drimati. The promontory of the Naumachaei, over against 

 Cai-mania, is distant from it fifty miles. A wonderful circum- 

 stance is said to have happened here ; Numenius, who was 

 made governor of Mesena by king Antiochus, while fighting 

 against the Persians, defeated them at sea, and at low water, 

 by land, with an army of cavalry, on the same day ; in 

 memory of which event he erected a twofold trophy on the 

 same spot, in honour of Jupiter and Neptune.^^ 

 Opposite to this place, in the main sea, lies the island of Ogyris,^' 



29 Or the mountain " with the Three Peaks." 



*" Stephanas mentions this as an island of the Erj-thrsean Sea. Hardly 

 any of these places appear to have been identified ; and there is great un- 

 certainty as to the orthography of the names. 



31 From which came the myrrh mentioned by Pliny in B. xii. c. 36. 



32 Or the Tent- Dwellers, the modern Bedouins. 



33 By some geographers identified with the Ocelis or Ocila, mentioned 

 in c. 26, the present Zee Hill or Ghela, a short distance to the south of 

 Mocha, and to the north of the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb. Hardouin says, 

 however, that it was a different place, Acila being in the vicinity of the 

 Persian Gulf, in which he appears to be correct. 



^^ Nothing relative to Numcnius beyond this fact has been recorded. 

 3'^ Hardouin and Ansart think that under this name is meant the 

 island called in modern times Mazira or Maceira. 



