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Pausanias, Description of Greece | 86 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 44 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 42 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Plato, Laws | 42 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristotle, Politics | 40 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 36 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 32 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, Odyssey | 28 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 26 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.) | 24 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Sicily is triangular in shape; and for this reason it was at first called "Trinacria," though later the name was changed to the more euphonious "Thrinacis." Its shape is defined by three capes: Pelorias, which with Caenys and Columna Rheginorum forms the strait, and Pachynus, which lies out towards the east and is washed by the Sicilian Sea, thus facing towards the Peloponnesus and the sea-passage to Crete, and, third, Lilybaeum, the cape that is next to Libya, thus facing at the same time towards Libya and the winter sunset.South-west. As for the sides which are marked off by the three capes, two of them are moderately concave, whereas the third, the one that reaches from Lilybaeum to Pelorias, is convex; and this last is the longest, being one thousand seven hundred stadia in length, as Poseidonius states, though he adds twenty stadia more. Of the other two sides, the one from Lilybaeum to Pachynus is longer than the other, and the one next to the strait and Italy, from Pelor