PO´NTIAE
PO´NTIAE (
Πόντιαι νῆσοι, Scyl. p. 46), three islands off the coast of the Greater Syrtis. Ptolemy (
4.3.36 ; comp.
Stadiasm. § § 72--75) calls these Misynus, Pontia, and Gaea. They may be identified with the reefs of
Ghára. (Beechey,
Expedition to the N. Coast of Africa, p. 238, App. p. x.; Smyth,
Mediterranean, p. 455.)
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