( ?o8 ) 
This general miftake feems to have been occafioned 
by giving too eafily into the opinion, that Liv^ un- 
derllood by the FrcUtm all the Sea between the Gapes 
Spartd and Trafalgar, and the Rock of Gihrdtar and 
Apts-Hill\ when it is more probable that he termed 
flridly fo only the narrowed Fart, which was general- 
ly reckoned to be between the two latter : Mda.l’roximt 
Africa & Europe littora monies efficiunt Calpe AhiU. 
Plin) takes MellarU to be neared to A/rick, and there- 
fore places there the Eretum ex AtUnttco mart Lih. 3, 
which is an argument his Freium was not the fame 
with our Sttcights, and that he carried the Atlantick 
Ocean much farther Eafi th^a the Capes Spartd and Tre- 
falprar. 
Other Authors feem to make the Pillars of Hercules 
the Boundary of the Mediterranean and the Ocean. 
Marcianus Heracieotes. <7re^« rvs BcuIck^s 
la-'TPxvloc.s TO TO TO-frl)(^y •srccp \)s^Ti^i <Ta5 ^Actcr- 
'TECS nno)- TOv Tvy^^vliQiS, tiw ts 
»(9l6’ <£ T^v e^co, tvt tgi Toy O,yjf0.y'oy. Hic finem 
habet Hiffani^e pars condngens utraqut maria, qua 
circa freium Herculeum, tarn mare noftrum quam mare ex~ 
terius^ h.e^ Oceanum, TUs jjay Bculcxvs to 7rA«jDv 'tofO 
Tris jc^tu^ 'Hg^xAawi' eyTOs 
Awt', m TOy SuU>i^v Slyaoivoy. Baiica qui- 
ekm pars maxima pratenditur nofro^ mart, Herculeas intra 
cdumnas, pars vero qu£dam occidentali Oceano. 
Polybius L. III. KaA«TO^ ^ to yav Try r facts 
7rapVJ(fiy eoos Hg^jtAawj' ?jjAwj/, to H TVy e^ca 
^ faeyd?\./iv 'zxrQpaity>p€uofatv>u> if^ivTiv fx)y oyojxccoixy vie 
TtT^a-ipciTws i{^TV 7 rTiveSzif porrigifur 
Jecundum mare mil rum port to ad column as ufque Herculis 
Iberia nominatur ; qu£ (eenndum mare externum quod ^ 
magnum appdlatur, communem appellationem nondum tnve- 
Mzi, quia non diu efi cum fuit fxplorata. 
Appian 
