Latin Texts & Translations

The islands of the Euxine are the Placate or Cyaneæ, ^[Note] otherwise called Symplegades, and Apollonia, surnamed Thynias, ^[Note] to distinguish it from the island of that name ^[Note] in Europe; it is four miles in circumference, and one mile distant from the mainland. Opposite to Pharnacea ^[Note] is Chalceritis, to which the Greeks have given the name of Aria, ^[Note]

and consecrated it to Mars; here, they say, there were birds that used to attack strangers with blows of their wings.