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. vi. c. ii. 1. SICILY. 401 further twenty. Of the others, that extending to Pachynus from Lilyboeum is the longer, while the shortest faces the Strait and Italy, extending from Pelorias to Pachynus, being about 1120 or 1130 stadia. Posidonius shows that the cir- cumference is 4400 stadia, but in the Chorography the dis- tances are declared to exceed the above numbers, being severally reckoned in miles. Thus from Cape Pelorias to Mylre, 1 25 miles ; from Mylae to Tyndaris, 2 25 ; thence to Agathyrnum, 3 30 ; from Agathyrnum to Alassa, 4 30 ; from Akesa to Cephalo?dium, 5 30 ; these are but insignificant places ; from Cephaloedium to the river Himera, 6 which runs through the midst of Sicily, 18 ; from thence to Panormus, 7 35 ; [thence] to the Emporium 8 of the ^Egestani, 32 ; leav- ing to Lilybaeum 9 a distance of 38; thence having doubled the Cape and coasting the adjacent side to Heracleum, 10 75 ; and to the Emporium ll of the Agrigentini, 20 ; and to 12 Cama- I Milazzo. 2 S. Maria di Tindaro. 3 The MSS. of Strabo read Agathyrsum, but the town is more com- monly called Agathyrnum. Livy, book xxvi. cap. 40, and Silius Italicus, hook xiv. ver. 260, call it Agathyrna. Cluverius considers it to have been situated near S. Marco ; others would place it nearer to Capo d'Orlando ; while D'Anville is in favour of Agati. 4 I Bagni, or S. Maria de' Palazzi. Groskurd gives it as Torre di Pittineo by Tusa, or Torre di Tusa. Cicero writes the name without a diphthong, " statim Messana litteras Halesam mittit." Cic. in Verr. ii. c. 7. Diodorus spells it "Ataa. Silius Italicus, lib. xiv. ver. 219, makes the penultimate long : " Venit ab amne trahens nomen Gela, venit Halaesa." And the inscription in Gruter, p. 212, gives the name of the river near it, AXaKToy. 5 Cefalii. 6 Modern critics consider this to be the Fiume-Grande, which takes its rise near Polizzi and the Fiume Salso, the latter flows from a source within a few miles of the Fiume-Grande, and after a course of about 80 miles, falls into the sea near Alicata. The Fiume Salso was also called Himera, and both rivers taken to be one. 7 Palermo. 8 Castel-a-Mare. 9 Capo Boeo. 10 Probably ruins at the embouchure of the Platani. Groskurd also gives for it Bissenza. II At the mouth of the Fiume di Grrgenti. Virgil calls Agrigentum by the Greek name, JEn. iii. 703, " Arduus inde Acragas ostentat maxima longe Moenia, magnanimum quondam generator equorum." 12 As the distance from Agrigentum to Camarina greatly exceeds an- other 20 miles, Kramer supposes that the words, " and to Gela, 20," have been omitted by the copyist. VOL. i. 2 D