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CHAP. 13. SAEDIKIA. 
Leucothea comes next, and after it, but ont of sight, as it 
lies upon the verge of the African Sea, Sardinia. It is situate 
somewhat less^ than eight miles from the nearest point of 
Corsica, and the Straits between them are even still more 
reduced by the small islands there situate, called the Cuni- 
cularise^, as also those of Phintonis^ and • Eossse, from 
which last the Straits themselves have obtained the name of 
Taphros^. 
(7.) Sardinia extends, upon the east side, a distance of 
188 miles, on the west 175, on the south 77, and on the 
north 125, being 565 miles in circumference. Its pro- 
montory of Caralis^ is distant from Africa 200, and from 
Gades 1400 miles. Off the promontory of Gordis^ it has 
two islands called the Isles of Hercules'', off that of Sulcis, 
the island of Enosis^, and off that of Caralis, Ticaria^. Some 
writers place Beleris not far from it, as also Callodis, and the 
island known as Heras Lutra^°. 
The most celebrated peoples of this island are the Ilienses^\ 
the Balari, and the Corsi ; and among its eighteen towns, 
there are those of the Sulcitani^^, the Valentini^^, the Neapoli- 
^ The distance between is hardly five miles. 
^ These rocks appear at the present day to be nameless. The old name 
seems to mean, the " Rabbit Warrens." 
^ Phintonis, according to Hardouin, is the modern Isola di Figo, ac- 
cording to Mannert, Caprera. Cluver makes Fossse to be the present Isola 
Kossa, while Mannert considers it to be the same with Santa Maddalena. 
^ Ta^jods being the Grreek for the Latin word "fossa," the ordinary 
meaning of which is an " excavation." 
^ Probably the Cape of Carbonara, from which however Africa is distant 
only 121 miles, and the gulf of Grades or Cadiz 980. 
^ Now Capo Falcone. 
7 Now Asinara or Zavara, and Isola Piana. 
8 Now called Santo Antiocho, o& La Punta dell' Ulga. 
^ According to Cluver, the modern Coltelalzo. 
10 r£^Q "Baths of Juno." The identity of these islands does not 
appear to have been ascertained. 
11 Said by Pausanias to have been descended from persons who escaped 
on the fall of Troy under the command of lolaiis. 
12 Of the town of Sulcis. Its ruins are probably those seen at the 
village of Sulci, near the port Palma di Solo. 
13 Their town was probably on the site of the present Iglesias. 
