Latin Texts & Translations

Further south is the Gulf of Cyparissus, with the city of Cyparissa ^[Note] on its shores, the line of which is seventy-two miles in length. Then, the towns of Pylos ^[Note] and Methone ^[Note], the place where Helos stood, the Promontory of Acritas ^[Note], the Asinæan Gulf, which takes its name from the town of Asine ^[Note], and the Coronean, so called from Corone; which gulfs terminate at the Promontory of Tanarum ^[Note]. These are all in the country of Messenia, which has eighteen mountains, and the river Pamisus ^[Note] also. In the interior are Messene ^[Note], Ithome, Œchalia, Arene ^[Note], Pteleon, Thryon, Dorion ^[Note], and Zancle ^[Note], all of them known to fame at different periods. The margin of this gulf measures eighty miles, the distance across being thirty.