[400] The present island of Metelino.

[401] Ἡ δὲ Ἄντισσα νῆσος ἦν πρότερον, ὡς Μυρσίλος φησί· τῆς [δὲ] Λέσβου καλουμένης πρότερον Ἴσσης, καὶ τὴν νῆσον Ἄντισσαν καλεῖσθαι συνέβη. Our rendering of this passage, though rather free, seemed necessary to the clear explication of the Greek.

[402] Procita.

[403] Ischia.

[404] Miseno, the northern cape of the Gulf of Naples.

[405] Capri.

[406] Reggio.

[407] These two mountains are separated from each other by the river Penæus.

[408] Ῥαγάς, a rent or chink. This town was sixty miles from Ecbatana; it was named by the Arabs Raï, and is now in ruins. It is the Rhages in Tobias.

[409] Certain mountain defiles, now called Firouz-Koh.