[2244] South-east.
[2245] A river of the Peloponnesus, now called Ruféa.
[2246] Cape Matapan.
[2247] The French translation gives 1160 stadia.
[2248] Gossellin observes, that from Pachynus to Lilybæum the coast runs from the south to the north-west, and looks towards the south-west.
[2249] This person, according to Varro, was named Strabo. See Varr. ap. Plin. Hist. Nat. lib. vii. § 21, page 386.
[2250] This coast of Sicily rises very little as it advances towards the east, and looks almost continually towards the north, with the exception of a very short space near Lilybæum. The Æolian islands lie to the north.
[2251] Taormina.
[2252] Naxos was not situated between Catana and Syracuse, but was most probably built on the left bank of the Fiume Freddo, the ancient Asines, near Taormina. It is possible that Strabo originally wrote, between Messina and Syracuse. Naxos was founded about 734 B. C., and destroyed by Dionysius the elder about the year 403. Naxos is thought by some to be the modern Schisso.
[2253] Megara was founded on the right of the Cantaro, the ancient Alabus. It was destroyed about 214 years B. C.