[678] Issus, now Aias, a town of Cilicia on the confines of Syria, famous for the battle between Alexander the Great and Darius, in consequence of which it was called Nicopolis.
[679] Salamoni.
[680] Cape Krio.
[681] Cape Passaro.
[682] Cape St. Vincent.
[683] Total 28,500 stadia.
[684] Spoken of by Polybius.
[685] The Gulf of Genoa.
[686] These measures are taken along the coast, in stadia of 700 to a degree. Of these, from Marseilles to Gibraltar there are 9300, and from the ancient promontory of Pyrenæum to Gibraltar 7380. Consequently the corrections of Polybius were neither inaccurate nor uncalled for.
[687] These 6000 stadia, taken in a direct line, are just the distance from Cape St. Vincent to the chain of the Pyrenees.