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The Sea of Sicily washes Italy, from the Strait of RhegiumNow Reggio, on the Strait of Messina, which was also sometimes called the Strait of Rhegium. to Locris,These were the Epizephyrian Locrians, or dwellers near the promontory of Zephyrium. They were situated towards the extremity of Italy, near Rhegium. Traces of their city are seen at Motta di Bourzano on the eastern coast of Ulterior Calabria. and also the eastern coast of Sicily from MesseneMessina. to SyracuseSyragusa. and Pachynus.Cape Passaro. On the eastern side it reaches to the promontories of Crete, surrounds the greater part of Peloponnesus, and fills the Gulf of Corinth.The Gulf of Lepanto. On the north it advances to the Iapygian Promontory,Cape Leuca or Finisterre. the mouth of the Ionian Gulf,The lower part of the Adriatic was designated the Ionian Gulf the southern parts of Epirus,The portion of Greece opposite Corfu. as far as the Ambracic Gulf,The Gulf of Arta. and the continuation of the coast which forms the Corinthian Gulf, near the Peloponnesus.
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The Ionian Gulf forms part of what we now call the Adriatic.The Gulf of Venice. Illyria forms its right side, and Italy as far as the recess where Aquileia is situated, the left.
