BOOK III. VI. 80-83 



150 miles long and at most points 50 miles broad : 

 its circumference measures 325 miles ; it is 62 " 

 miles from the Shallows of Volterra.* It contains 

 32 states, and the colonies of Mariana founded by 

 Gaius Marius and Aleria founded by Sulla when 

 Dictator. Nearer the mainland is Oglasa, and inside 

 that, and 60 miles from Corsica, Pianosa, so named 

 from its appearance, as it is level with the sea and 

 consequently treacherous to vessels. TJien La 

 Gorgona, a larger island, and Capraia, the Greek 

 name of which is Aegihon, and also Giglio and 

 Gianuto, in Gi-eek Artemisia, both opposite the coast 

 at Cosa, and Barpana, Menaria,Columbaria, Venaria, 

 Elba with its iron mines, an island 100 miles round 

 and 10 miles from Populoniimi, called by the Greeks 

 Aethalia ; the distance between Elba and Pianosa 

 is 28 miles. After these beyond the mouths of the 

 Tiber and off the coast of Antium is Astura, then 

 Palmarola, Senone, and opposite to Formiae Ponza. 

 In the gulf of PozzuoU are Pandateria,'^ Prochyta 

 (so called not after Aeneas's nurse but becaase it was 

 formed of soil dcpositcd by the current from Aenaria), 

 Aenaria (named from having given anchorage 

 to the fleet of Aeneas but callcd Inarime in Homer'^ 

 and Pithecusa (named not from its multitude of 

 monkeys,"^ as some people have supposed, but from 

 its pottery / factories). Between Posilippo and Naples 

 is Megaris s ; then, 8 miles from Sorrento, Capri, 

 celebrated for the Emperor Tiberius's castle — the 

 island is 11 miles round ; Leucothea ; and out 

 of sight, being on the edge of the African Sea, 

 Sardinia, which is less than 8 miles from the end of 

 Corsica, and moreover the channel is narrowed by 

 the small islands called the Rabbit Warrens, and also 



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