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The length of the coast from Iapygia to theCapuan wine. straits is three thousand stades by land, and it is washed by the Sicilian sea. Sailing, however, the distance is less than five hundred stades. . . .
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The largest distance of the Etrurian coast is from Luna to Ostia, a distance of one thousand three hundred and thirty stades.Strabo corrects this, saying that the distance is 3000 stades. . . .
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The island Lemnos is called Aethaleia. . . .
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The bay between the two promontories of Misenum andThe Bay of Naples. Minerva is called the Crater (the Bowl). Above this coast lies the whole of Campania, the most fertile plain in the country. Round the Bowl live the Opici and the Ausones. . . .
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The north road from Iapygia has beenEastern coast-road from S. to N. of Italy. marked out with miles, five hundred and sixty to Sena, and one hundred and seventy thence to Aquileia. . . .
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Then comes Lacinium . . . from the straits to this placeThe Lacinian promontory. is a distance of one thousand three hundred stades, and thence to the Iapygian promontory seven hundred. . . .
