ON THE ICTIS OF DIODORUS SICULUS. 309 
Siculus is probably the same island, which Pliny, 
from Timeeus, calls Micris.’’* 
The produce of this island, according to Pliny, 
was “ candidum plumbum,” corresponding with 
the “plumbum album” of Cesar,} whose editors 
explain these words by the latin “ stannum,” 
and the Greek xecziro:, both signifying tin. t 
But Timeus, as quoted by Pliny, also says, that 
this Mictis, or Ictis, “ was six days’ sail inwards 
from Britain;” which led Hardouin, the editor 
of Pliny, to remark, that its situation could not 
be certainly determined.§ Wesseling was also 
of opinion, that Timeus might have been led into 
an error as to the distance, by following an un- 
certain tradition of the common people.|| On 
this subject, Borlase says, ‘“ the distance here 
* Observations on the Ancient and Present State of the 
Islands of Scilly. p.'77. 
t Nascitur ibi plumbum album in mediterraneis regionibus. 
Ces. De Bello Gall. Lib. v. e. 12. 
¢ Ibid. Ed. Oudendorp. p. 225. 
§ Que sit hac Timzi Mictis in Germanico Mari sex dierum 
navigatione a Britannia dissita, stanti certo non potest. Plinii 
Op. vol. I. p. 223. 
|| Fieri tamen potest, ut Timeus, incertum vulgi ramorem 
secutus, in eo spatio aberrayerit. Diod. Sic. Bibl. Hist. 
vol. I. p. 347. 
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