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thence, who by common consent was the first of the Academic philosophers, and Apollonius Cronos, the master of Diodorus the Dialectician, who was also called Cronos, for the epithet of the master was by some transferred to the scholar.

The rest of the sea-coast of Cyrene from Apollonia to Catabathmus is 2200 stadia in length; it does not throughout afford facilities for coasting along it; for harbours, anchorage, habitations, and watering-places are few. The places most in repute along the coast are the Naustathmus, ^note and Zephyrium with an anchorage, also another Zephyrium, and a promontory called Chersonesus, ^note with a harbour situated opposite to and to the south of Corycus ^note in Crete, at the distance of 2500 stadia; then a temple of Hercules, and above it a village Paliurus; then a harbour Menelaus, and a low promontory Ardanixis, (Ardanis,) ^note with an anchorage; then a great harbour, which is situated opposite to Chersonesus in Crete, at a distance of about 3000 (2000 ?) stadia; for the whole of Crete, which is (a) long and narrow (island), lies opposite and nearly parallel to this coast. After the great harbour is another harbour, Plynos, and about it Tetra-pyrgia (the four towers). The place is called Catabathmus. ^note Cyrenaea extends to this point; the remainder (of the coast) to Paraetonium, ^note and from thence to Alexandreia, we have spoken of in our account of Egypt. ^note 23

The country deep in the interior, and above the Syrtis and Cyrenaea, a very sterile and dry tract, is in the possession of Libyans. First are the Nasamones, then Psylli, and some Gaetuli, then Garamantes; somewhat more towards the east (than the Nasamones) are the Marmaridae, who are situated for the most part on the boundaries of Cyrenaea, and extend to the temple of Ammon. It is asserted, that persons directing their course from the recess of the Great Syrtis, (namely,) from about the neighbourhood of Automala, ^note in the direction of the winter