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 330 STRABO. CASAU-B. 222. Ionium 270 ; and from Poplonium to Cossa 1 near 800, or as some say, 600. Polybius, however, says that there are not 2 in all 1330. 3 Of these Luna is a city and harbour ; it is named by the Greeks, the harbour and city of Selene. 4 The city is not large, but the harbour 5 is very fine and spacious, containing in itself numerous harbours, all of them deep near the shore ; it is in fact an arsenal worthy of a nation holding dominion for so long a time over so vast a sea. The harbour is surrounded by lofty mountains, 6 from whence you may view the sea 7 and Sardinia, and a great part of the coast on either side. Here are quarries of marble, both white and marked with green, so numerous and large, as to furnish tablets and columns of one block ; and most of the material for the fine works, both in Rome and the other cities, is furnished from hence. The transport of the marble is easy, as the quarries lie near to the sea, and from the sea they are conveyed by the Tiber. Tyr- rhenia likewise supplies most of the straightest and longest planks for building, as they are brought direct from the mountains to the river. Between Luna and Pisa flows the Macra, 8 a division which many writers consider the true bound- ary of Tyrrhenia and Liguria. isa was founded by the Pjsatse of the Peloponnesus, who went under Nestor to the expedition again sTTroy, but in their voyage~horne wandered out of their course, some to Metapontium, 9 others to the Pisatis ; they were, however, all called Pylians. The city lies between the two rivers Arno 10 and ^Esar, 11 at their point of confluence ; the former of which, though very full, descends from Arretium 12 not in one body, but divided into three ; the second flows Ruins near Ansedonia. Coray here reads ovv for OVK. Kramer considers the passage corrupt. The French translation here gives 1460, and a note by Gosselin. ~2er)rT], the moon. 5 The bay of Spezia. The mountains of Carrara. 7 The Mediterranean. Other writers mention a river Macra, but none of them, as it appears, a district in Italy bearing that name. Kramer supposes that Strabo wrote Trora/uov, and not %u)piov t the reading of all MS. 11 Corresponding to the present Serchio, which discharges itself into the sea, and not into the Arno. The time when this change of direction took place is not recorded, but traces of the ancient name and course of the river remain in the Osari, which, after flowing a short distance through a marshy district, falls into the sea between the Serchio and Arno. 12 Arezzo.
 * Near the mouth of the river Basiento. 10 The ancient Arnus.