PORTUS DELPHINI
Eth.
PORTUS DELPHINI (
Plin. Nat. 3.5. s. 7; Delphinis, Itin. Ant. p. 293), a small port on the coast of Liguria, still called
Porto Fino, situated at the SE. extremity of a great mountain promontory, which projects into the sea between
Genoa and
Sestri, and forms one of the most striking natural features of this part of the Ligurian coast.
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