186 STRABO. BOOK II. perides l to Automala, 2 and the frontier which separates the Cyrenaic from the rest of Libya. According to others, its circumference is only 4000 stadia, its depth 1500 stadia, and the breadth at its mouth the same. The Sea of Sicily washes Italy, from the Strait of Rhegium 3 to Locris, 4 and also the eastern coast of Sicily from Messene 5 to Syracuse 6 and Pachynus. 7 On the eastern side it reaches to the promontories of Crete, surrounds the greater part of Peloponnesus, and fills the Gulf of Corinth. 8 On the north it advances to the lapygian Promontory, 9 the mouth of the Ionian Gulf, 10 the southern parts of Epirus, 11 as far as the Am- bracic Gulf, 12 and the continuation of the coast which forms the Corinthian Gulf, near the Peloponnesus. The Ionian Gulf forms part of what we now call the Adri- atic. 13 Illyria forms its right side, and Italy as far as the recess where Aquileia is situated, the left. The Adriatic stretches north and west ; it is long and nar- row, being in length about 6000 stadia, and its greatest breadth 1200. There are many islands situated here opposite the coasts of Illyria, such as the Absyrtides, 14 Cyrictica, 15 and the Libyr- nides, 16 also Issa, 17 Tragurium, 18 the Black Corcyra, 19 and Pharos. 20 Opposite to Italy are the Islands of Diomede. 21 The
- Hesperides is the same city which the sovereigns of Alexandria after-
wards called Berenice. It is the modern Bernic or Bengazi. 2 Automala appears to have been situated on the most northern point of the Greater Syrtes, on the confines of a small gulf, near to a place called Tine, or the Marsh. 3 Now Reggio, on the Strait of Messina, which was also sometimes called the Strait of Rhegium. 4 These were the Epizephyrian Locrians, or dwellers near the promon- tory of Zephyrium. They were situated towards the extremity of Italy, near Rhegium. Traces of their city are seen at Motta di Bourzano on the eastern coast of Ulterior Calabria. 5 Messina. 6 Syragusa. 7 Cape Passaro. 8 The Gulf of Lepanto. 9 Cape Leuca or Finisterre. 10 The lower part of the Adriatic was designated the Ionian Gulf. 11 The portion of Greece opposite Corfu. 12 The Gulf of Arta. 13 The Gulf of Venice. u The Islands of Cherso and Ossero. 15 Apparently the Curicta of Pliny and Ptolemy, corresponding to the island of Veglia. 16 The Libyrnides are the islands of Arbo, Pago, Isola Longa, Coronata, &c., which border the coasts of ancient Liburnia, now Murlaka. 17 Lissa. 18 The Island of Traw. 19 Curzola. 20 Lesina. 21 The Islands of Tremiti.
