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After Sicily and the straits on either side of it,The Strait of Messina, and the strait separating Sicily and Cape Bona on the African coast. there are other seas, for instance, that opposite the Syrtes and the Cyrenaic,Of which Cyrene, now Curen, was the capital. the Syrtes themselves, and the sea formerly called the Ausonian, but which, as it flows into and forms part of the Sea of Sicily, is now included under the latter name. The sea opposite to the Syrtes and the Cyrenaic is called the Libyan Sea; it extends as far as the Sea of Egypt.
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The Lesser SyrtesThe Gulf of Cabes. is about 1600 stadia in circumference. On either side of its mouth lie the islands of MeninxThe Island of Gerbi. and Kerkina.The Island of Kerkeni. The Greater SyrtesSidra, or Zalscho. is (according to Eratosthenes) 5000 stadia in circuit, and in depth 1800, from the HesperidesHesperides is the same city which the sovereigns of Alexandria afterwards called Berenice. It is the modern Bernic or Bengazi. to Automala,Automala appears to have been situated on the most northern point of the Greater Syrtes, on the confines of a small gulf, near to a place called Tine, or the Marsh. 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.
