[608] μετὰ τὸν Πόντον, literally, after the Pontus.
[609] Gosselin observes, that Eratosthenes took a general view of the salient points of land that jutted into the Mediterranean, as some of the learned of our own time have done, when remarking that most of the continents terminated in capes, extending towards the south. The first promontory that Eratosthenes speaks of terminated in Cape Malea of the Peloponnesus, and comprised the whole of Greece; the Italian promontory likewise terminated Italy; the Ligurian promontory was reckoned to include all Spain, it terminated at Cape Tarifa, near to the middle of the Strait of Gibraltar. As the Ligurians had obtained possession of a considerable portion of the coasts of France and Spain, that part of the Mediterranean which washes the shores of those countries was named the Ligurian Sea. It extended from the Arno to the Strait of Gibraltar. It is in accordance with this nomenclature that Eratosthenes called Cape Tarifa, which projects farthest into the Strait, the Ligurian promontory.
[610] Cape Colonna.
[611] Cape Malio, or St. Angelo.
[612] Strabo means the Saronic Gulf, now the Bay of Engia.
[613] The peninsula of Gallipoli by the Dardanelles.
[614] πρὸς τὸ Σούνιον. Strabo’s meaning is, that the entire space of sea, bounded on the north by the Thracian Chersonesus, and on the south by Sunium, or Cape Colonna, forms a kind of large gulf.
[615] Or Black Gulf; the Gulf of Saros.
[616] The Gulfs of Contessa, Monte-Santo, Cassandra, and Salonica.
[617] Durazzo, on the coast of Albania.