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which was called by the Athenians, when they founded it, 
Scylletium. This part of Italy is nearly a peninsula, in con- 
sequence of the Gulf of Terinaeum^ running up into it on the 
other side ; in it there is a harbour called Castra Hannibalis^ : 
in no part is Italy narrower than here, it being but twenty 
miles across. For this reason the Elder Dionysius enter- 
tained the idea of severing^ this portion from the main-land 
of Italy at this spot, and adding it to Sicily. The navi- 
gable rivers in this district are the Carcines^, the Crotalus, 
the Semirus, the Arocas, and the Targines. In the interior 
is the town of Petilia^, and there are besides, Mount Cli- 
banus^, the promontory of Lacinium, in front of which lies 
the island of Dioscoron-^, ten miles from the main-land, and 
another called the Isle of Calypso, which Homer is supposed 
to refer to under the name of Ogygia ; as also the islands of 
Tiris, Eranusa, and Meloessa. According to Agrippa, the 
promontory of Lacinium^ is seventy miles from Caulon. 
(11.) At the promontory of Lacinium begins the second 
Gulf of Europe, the bend of which forms an arc of great 
depth, and terminates at Acroceraunium, a promontory of 
Epirus, from which it is distant^ seventy-five miles. We 
first come to the town of Croton^^, and then the river 
^ Now the Grulf of Saint Eufemia. 
2 "Hannibal's Camp." This was the seaport of Scyllacium, and its 
site was probably near the mouth of the river Corace. 
3 According to Strabo, B. vi., he intended to erect a high wall across, 
and so divide it from the rest of Italy ; but if we may judge, from the 
use by Pliny of the word " intercisam," it would seem that it was his 
design to cut a canal across this neck of land. 
^ According to Hardouin, the Carcines is the present river Corace, the 
Crotalus the ADi, the Semirus the Simari, the Arocas the Crocchio, and 
the Targuies the Tacina. 
^ The present Strongolo, according to D' Anville and Mannert. 
^ The present Monte Monacello and Monte Euscaldo are supposed 
to form part of the range called CHbanus. 
7 Meaning that it was sacred to Castor and Pollux. Such are the 
changes effected by lapse of time that these two islands are now only 
bleak rocks. The present locahty of the other islands does not appear 
to be known. ^ Now Capo di Colonne. 
9 The real distance from Acroceraunium, now Capo Linguetta, is 153 
miles, according to Ansart. 
Or Crotona, one of the most famous Glreek cities in the south of 
Italy. 'No ruins of the ancient city, said by Livy to have been twelve 
miles in circumference, are now remaining. The modern Cotrone occu- 
pies a part of its site. Pythagoras taught at this place. 
