. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. was an object of dread to mariners :— Mox et Leucatse nimbosa cacumina montis, Et formidatus nautis aperitur Apollo.—Yirg. u3En. iii. 274. Totumque instructo marte videresFervere Leucaten, auroque effulgere fluctus.—Id. viii, 676. Nec nubifer Actia texitLitora Leucates. Claud, de BeU. Get. 185. S Ei/ TTopOfjicZ ]g re Sdjaoto re TraLTrakoicrcrq^ re Z6lkvv9ov exov, rjB di Sajuov ^ It. ii. yap vrjcroLcriv liriKpaTiovcTLV apiarot, AovAtxi-V ^^i —<^M
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. was an object of dread to mariners :— Mox et Leucatse nimbosa cacumina montis, Et formidatus nautis aperitur Apollo.—Yirg. u3En. iii. 274. Totumque instructo marte videresFervere Leucaten, auroque effulgere fluctus.—Id. viii, 676. Nec nubifer Actia texitLitora Leucates. Claud, de BeU. Get. 185. S Ei/ TTopOfjicZ ]g re Sdjaoto re TraLTrakoicrcrq^ re Z6lkvv9ov exov, rjB di Sajuov ^ It. ii. yap vrjcroLcriv liriKpaTiovcTLV apiarot, AovAtxi-V ^^i —<^M-T7 v^^^vri ZaKvvOo). Od. xvi. 122. ^ Hence the Homeric epithet Trac-aAoeo-crrj. See previous Its position is thus described by Homer :— AvTY] 8k xQaixaXri Travv—epraTr] elv akl Keirat Ilpbg ^6<^ov, at 6e t avevOe rrpos ^o) r, rjekiov re.—Od. ix. x^a/xaAT^ probably refers to the position of the island, lying under themountains of Acarnania, and TrainjneprdTr] to its being at the extremity of thegroup of islands formed by Zaeynthus, Cephallenia, and the Chap. XX. ISLANDS. 381 miles: its length from N. to S. is about 17 miles, and its greatestbreadth abont 4. It consists of a ridge of limestone rock, divided bya deep and wide gulf, G. of Molo, into two nearly equal parts, whichare connected by an isthmus about J a mile across. The chief mountainis in the N. and was named Neritus ; ^ the forests which formerlyclothed it have now disappeared. The island is generally rugged andsterile, abounding with bold cliffs and indented by numerous localities derive an especial interest from the frequent references tothem in the Homeric poems. The capital was probably in the Polls, in which case Mt. Neium ^ will answer to Exocje, the isle ofAsteris perhaps to Dascaglio and the harbour of Rheitlirum to the bayof Afales. The fountain of Arethusa ^ gushes out of a cliff, still namedCorax, at the extremity of the island. The port o
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