BOOK III. V. 74-77 



of Sila, and the promontory of Leucopetra 15 miles 

 from it, and Epizephyrian Locri (called after the 

 promontory of Zephyrium) 51 miles ; it is 303 miles 

 from the rivcr Silaro. And this rounds off the 

 first gulf " of Europe. 



The names of the seas that it contains are as Divisiomof 

 follows : that from which it makcs its entrance is the j/Jf^''^ 

 Atlantic, or as others call it, the Great Sea; the roncan. 

 strait by which it enters is called by the Greeks 

 Porthmos and by us the Straits of Cadiz ; after it has 

 entered, as far as it washes the coast of the Spains 

 it is called the Spanish Sea, or by others the Iberian 

 or the Balearic Sea ; then the GaUic Sea as far as the 

 Province of Narbonne, and afterwards the Ligurian 

 Sea ; from that point to the Island of Sicily the 

 Tuscan Sea, which some of the Greeks call the 

 Southern Sea and others the Tyrrhenian, but most 

 of our ovn\ pcople the Lower Sea. Beyond Sicily, 

 as far as the south-eastern point of Italy Polybius 

 calls it the Ausonian Sea, but Eratosthenes calls all 

 the part betMcen the ocean inlet and Sardinia the 

 Sardoan Sea, from Sardinia to Sicily thc Tyrrhenian, 

 from Sicily to Crete the Sicihan, and beyond Crete 

 the Cretan. 



The first of allthe islands scattered over these seas sixiy-four 

 are called \nt\\ the Greeks the Pityussae, from the ''^^ing 

 pinetrees * that grow on them; each of these '/'^■Sai«<»""- 

 islands is now named Ebusus,"^ and in treaty with 

 Rome, the channel between them being narrow. 

 Their area is 46 miles, and their distance from Denia 

 87| xniles, which is the distance by land from Denia 

 to New Carthage, while at the same distanoe from 

 the Pityussae out to sea are the two Balearic islands, 

 and opposite the River Xucar hes Colubraria. The 



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