PRASO´DES SINUS
PRASO´DES SINUS (
Πρασώδης κόλπος,
Ptol. 7.4.4), a gulf which Ptolemy places on the SW. side of the island of Taprobane or
Ceylon. No such gulf can now be traced upon the outline of this island; and there would seem to be some confusion between the gulf and a sea to which the geographer gives the same name of
Πρασώδης, and which he makes extend along the parallel between the island of Menuthias (
Zanzibar?) and the
Gulf of Siam (7.2.1).
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