[1707] Other writers mention a river Macra, but none of them, as it appears, a district in Italy bearing that name. Kramer supposes that Strabo wrote ποτάμιον, and not χωρίον, the reading of all MSS.
[1708] Near the mouth of the river Basiento.
[1709] The ancient Arnus.
[1710] Corresponding to the present Serchio, which discharges itself into the sea, and not into the Arno. The time when this change of direction took place is not recorded, but traces of the ancient name and course of the river remain in the Osari, which, after flowing a short distance through a marshy district, falls into the sea between the Serchio and Arno.
[1711] Arezzo.
[1712] Volterra.
[1713] Eighty-one years B. C.
[1714] This was a regular business. A man was posted on a high place, from which he could see the shoals coming, and make a sign to the fishermen.
[1715] Corsica.
[1716] The island of Elba.