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mentioned, is called Pelonis, faces Scylla and juts out towards 

 Italy, while Pachynum^ extends in the direction of Greece, 

 Peloponnesus being at a distance from it of 440 miles, and 

 Lilybseum'^, towards Africa, being distant 180 miles from the 

 promontory of Mercury^, and from that of Caralis in Sar- 

 dinia 190. These promontories and sides are situate at the 

 following distances from each other : by hind it is 186 miles 

 from Pelorus to Paehynum, from Pachynum to Lilybffium 

 200, and from Lilyb»um to Pelorus 170\ 



In this island there are five colonies and sixty-three cities 

 or states. Leaving Pelorus and facing the Ionian Sea, we 

 have the town of Messana', whose inhabitants are also called 

 Mamertini and enjoy the rights of Eoman citizens; the 

 promontory of Drepanum', the colony of Tauromenium', 

 formerly called Naxos, the river Asines^, and Mount ^tna, 

 wondrous for the flames which it emits by night. Its crater 

 is twenty stadia in circumference, and from it red-hot 

 cinders are thrown as far as Tauromenium and Catina, the 

 noise being heard even at Maroneum^ and the Gemellian 

 HUls. We then come to the three rocks of the Cyclopes^", 

 the Port of Ulysses", the colony of Catina^, and the rivers 

 Symaethus^^ and Terias; while more inland lie the LaBstry- 

 gonian Plains. 



To these rivers succeed the towns of Leontiniun" and 

 Megari 

 the fountain 



the river Pantagies'*, the colony of Syracuse^", with 

 ;aui of Arethusa^', (the people in the Syracusan ter- 



1 Now Capo di Passaro. ' The presaat Capo di Boco Marsala. 



3 Now Cape Bon. The real distance is but seventy-eight miles. 



* The following are more probably the correct distances : 150, 210, 

 and 230 miles. » Now Messina. 



^ The modem Capo di Santo Alessio. 



7 Now called Taormini ; the remains of the ancient town are very 

 considerable. * Probably the present Alcantara. 



9 The present Madonia and Monte di Mele. 



1" Now called I Fariglioni. 



" In modem times called " Lognina Statione," according to Hardotun. 



^' The modem city of Catania stands on its site. 



^3 The Fiume di Santo Leonardo, according to Hardouin, but Mannert 

 Bays the river Lentini. Ansart suggests the Guama Lunga. 



^* Now Lentini. The ruins of Megaris are still to be seen, according 

 to Mannert. i* Now the Porcaro. 



^^ The modem city of Siracosa. 



^7 See B. xxxi. c. 30, for particulars of this fountaia. 



