[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.