-- 401 --
further twenty. Of the others, that extending to Pachynus
from Lilybaeum 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 circumference is 4400 stadia, but in the Chorography the distances are declared to exceed the above numbers, being
severally reckoned in miles. Thus from Cape Pelorias to
Mylae, note 25 miles; from Mylae to Tyndaris, note 25; thence to
Agathyrnum, note 30; from Agathyrnum to Alaesa, note
30; from
Alaesa to Cephaloedium, note 30; these are but insignificant
places; from Cephaloedium to the river Himera, note which runs
through the midst of Sicily, 18; from thence to Panormus, note
35; [thence] to the Emporium note of the Aegestani, 32; leaving to Lilybaeum note a distance of 38; thence having doubled
the Cape and coasting the adjacent side to Heracleum, note 75;
and to the Emporium note
of the Agrigentini, 20; and to note Cama-