Book 10
4.5
From the CyrenaeanFrom what point in the Cyrenaiïca is not said. From b. viii. c. iii. § 1, it would appear to be Phycus, (Ras al Sem,) but from b. xvii. c. iii. § 20, it would seem to be Apollonias, (Marsa-susa,) the maritime arsenal of the Cyrenaeans, situated at about 170 stadia to the east of Phycus, and 80 stadia to the west of Cyrene. territory to Criu-metoponC. Crio is a voyage of two days and nights. From Cimarus [to Malea] are 700 stadia.Of 700 stadia to a degree. Gossellin. In the midway is Cythera.Cerigo. From the promontory SamoniumThe distance from Samonium (Cape Salamone) to Alexandria, in a straight line, is about 5500 stadia of 111 1/9 to the degree. Gossellin. to Aegypt a ship sails in four days and nights, but, according to other writers, in three. Some say that it is a voyage of 5000 stadia; others, of still less than this. According to Eratosthenes, the distance from Cyrenaica to Criu-Metopon is 2000 stadia, and thence to Peloponnesus less than [1000].Gossellin’s conjecture, for the number is wanting in the text.
