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perides ^note to Automala, ^note and the frontier which separates the Cyrenaic from the rest of Libya. According to others, its circumference is only 4000 stadia, its depth 1500 stadia, and the breadth at its mouth the same.

The Sea of Sicily washes Italy, from the Strait of Rhegium ^note to Locris, ^note and also the eastern coast of Sicily from Messene ^note to Syracuse ^note and Pachynus. ^note On the eastern side it reaches to the promontories of Crete, surrounds the greater part of Peloponnesus, and fills the Gulf of Corinth. ^note On the north it advances to the Iapygian Promontory, ^note the mouth of the Ionian Gulf, ^note the southern parts of Epirus, ^note as far as the Ambracic Gulf, ^note and the continuation of the coast which forms the Corinthian Gulf, near the Peloponnesus.

The Ionian Gulf forms part of what we now call the Adriatic. ^note Illyria forms its right side, and Italy as far as the recess where Aquileia is situated, the left.

The Adriatic stretches north and west; it is long and narrow, being in length about 6000 stadia, and its greatest breadth 1200. There are many islands situated here opposite the coasts of Illyria, such as the Absyrtides, ^note Cyrictica, ^note and the Libyrnides, ^note also Issa, ^note Tragurium, ^note the Black Corcyra, ^note and Pharos. ^note Opposite to Italy are the Islands of Diomede. ^note The