Cmise of 
its errone- 
182 CONSTANTINOPLE. 
CHAP, informed by Pliny, of the cause whence the 
appellation of Auricornu was given to the 
promontory^. Hence the Sinus afterwards 
ktion^of" received the appellation of the Bay of the 
'HieGoiucn <( Goldeu Hom" and ultimately was itself called 
"T//e Golden Horn." Antient navigators, who 
were always coasters, applied the term Ceras* 
to projections of the land : it could not therefore 
be used to signify a bay, or harbour ; in fact, Ceras 
was the old name for a promontory. The island 
of Cyprus, from the number of its promontories, 
was called Cerastis'. We embarked at Galata; 
(1) It was so called from its monopoly of the whole Tunny fishery: 
the shoals being driven, by fear, from the white cliffs of jisia, to the 
opposite JS'ttro/iean coast. " Thynni dexlra ripa intrant, exeunt Icna : 
id accidere existimatur, quia dextro oculo plus cernant, utroque nature 
hebete. Est in euripo Thracii Bosphori, quo Propontis Euxino 
jungitur, in ipsis Europam Asiamque separantis freti angusliis, 
saxum miri candoris, h. vado ad sumina perlucens, juxta Chalcedonem 
in latere Asia? : hujus aspectu repent& territi, semper adversum 
Byzantii promontorium, ex ea causa appellatum auricornu, prscipiti 
petunt agmine : itaque o»iw?5 ca/?<Mra Byzantii est, magna Chalce- 
DONis penuria." Plinio, Hist. Nat. lib. ix. cap. 15. tom. I. p. 476. 
L. Bat. 1635. 
(2) Procopius says it was derived from Ceroessa, mother of Byzas, 
who founded the city. "Ovtri^ Ki^a; ol IviX'^Z"" Ksfosirirj) rn 'RuZ.a.iros firrat 
TOW Ttis «o\ica; cluiinev Iviumfiai xaXoZirn. Procop. de jEdificiis, lib. i. 
c. 5. p. 16. tom. II. Pars Prior. Paris, 1663. 
(3) Permulta promontoria h geographis Cornua appellantur, ut 
Cyprus Cerastis, a multitudine promontorioruni." Gyllio, lib. i. de 
Bosp. Thrac. c. 5. apud Cronov. Thesaur. Grec. Antiq. vol. VI. p. 31 16. 
L. Bat. 1699. 
