Volume 1
The geography of Strabo / Literally translated, with notes. The first six books by H. C .Hamilton, esq., the remainder by W. Falconer.
- Strabo
- Date:
- 1854-1857
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The geography of Strabo / Literally translated, with notes. The first six books by H. C .Hamilton, esq., the remainder by W. Falconer. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![further twenty. Of the others, that extending to Pachynus from Lilybieum 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 Myl*,* 25 miles ; from ]\Iyla3 to Tyndaris,^ 25 ; thence to Agathyrnum,^ 30; from Agathyrnum to Alajsa,'* 30; from Ala?sa to Cephalocdium,® 30; these are but insignificant places ; from Cephaloedium to the river Himera,® which runs through the midst of Sicily, 18 ; from thence to Panormus,’^ 35 ; [thence] to the Emporium® of the A^gestani, 32 ; leav- ing to Lilybffium® a distance of 38; thence having doubled the Cape and coasting the adjacent side to Ileracleum,'® 75 ; and to the Emporium of the Agrigentini, 20 ; and to Cama- ' Milazzo. ' ^ S. Maria cli Tindaro. ’ The MSS. of Strabo read Agathyrsuni, but the town is more com- monly called Agathyrnum. Livy, book xxvi. cap. 40, and Silius Italicus, book xiv. ver. ‘260, call it Agalhyrna. 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. ^ I Bagni, or S. Maria de’ I’alazzi. 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 'AXicra. Silius Italicus, lib. xiv. ver. 219, makes the penultimate long ; “ Venit ab amne trahens nomen Gela, venit Ilalaesa.” And the inscription in Grutcr, p. 212, gives the name of the river near it, AXcddOi'. ‘ Cefalii. ‘ Modem critics consider this to be the Piume-Grande, which takes its rise near Polizzi and the Fiume Salso, the latter flows from a source within a few miles of the Piume-Grande, and after a course of about &0 miles, falls into the sea near Alicata. The Piumc Salso was also called Ilimera, and both rivers taken to be one. ' Palermo. ® Castel-a-Mare. ° Capo Roeo. Probably ruins at the embouchure of the Platani. Groskurd also gives for it Bissenza. At the mouth of the Piume di Girgenti. Virgil calls Agrigentum by the Greek name, iEn. iii. 703, “ Arduus hide Acragas ostentat maxima longe Moenia, magnanimbm quondam generator equorum.” 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. 1. 2d](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24872556_0001_0415.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
