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coast are rivers beyond count ; but the places worthy 

 of mention, beginning at I/Ocri, are the Sagriano 

 and the ruins of the to^vn of Caulon, Monasteraci, 

 Camp Consilinum, Punta di Stilo (thought by some 

 to be the longest promontory in Italy), then the gulf 

 and city of Squillace, called by the Athenians when 

 founding it Scylletium. This part of the country 

 is made into a peninsula by the Gulf of Santa Eufemia 

 which runs up to it, arid on it is the harbour called 

 Hannibars Camp. It is the narrov/est part of Italy, 

 which is here 20 miles across, and consequently 

 the elder Dionysius wanted to cut a canal across the 

 peninsula in this place, and annex it to Sicily. Tiie 

 navigable rivers iu this district are the Corace, AIH, 

 Simari, Crocchio and Tacina ; it contains the inland 

 town of Strongolo, the range of Monte Monacello, 

 and the promontory of Lacinium," oif the coast of 

 which ten miles out Hes the Island of the Sons of 

 Zeus * and another called Calypsos Island, wliich is 

 thought to be Homer's island of Ogygia, and also 

 Tyris, Eranusa and Meloessa. According to Agrippa 

 the distance of the promontory of Lacinium from 

 Caulon is 70 rniles. 



XI. At the promontory of Lacinium begins the 

 second Gulf of Europe ; it curves round in a large 

 bay and ends in Acroceraunium,<^ a promontory of 

 Epirus ; the distance froin cape to cape is 75 miles.'* 

 Here are the town of Crotona, the river Neto, and 

 the town of Turi between the river Crati and the 

 river Sibari, on which once stood the city of the sarue 

 name.*^ Likewise Heraclea, once called Siris, lies 

 between the Siris and the Aciris. Then the rivers 

 Salandra and Bassiento, and the town of Torre di 

 Mare, at which the third region of Italy ends. The 



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