[2234] Taormina.
[2235] Gosselin observes, that the distance from Messina to Cape Pelorias, which would complete the circuit of Sicily, is about 9 miles.
[2236] i. e. by land.
[2237] Messina.
[2238] An intelligent critic has imagined that this road may have been commenced by M. Valerius Maximus Messala, consul in the year 263, and censor in 253, before the Christian era. D’Orvill. Sic. c. ii. p. 12.
[2239] We have followed Kramer, who inserts [διακόσια] before τριάκοντα πέντε.
[2240] i. e. to give its parallels of latitude and longitude.
[2241] i. e. wherein all three sides are unequal.
[2242] i. e. Pelorias.
[2243] Or, lies towards the east, with a northern inclination.