[1513] Now Posilippo. It is said to have derived its name from the Greek παυσίλυπον, as tending to drive away care by the beauty of its situation. Virgil was buried in its vicinity.
[1514] The modern Castel del’ Ovo.
[1515] Now Capri. Here Tiberius established his den of lustfulness and iniquity. He erected twelve villas in the island, the remains of several of which are still to be seen.
[1516] The distance between is hardly five miles.
[1517] These rocks appear at the present day to be nameless. The old name seems to mean, the “Rabbit Warrens.”
[1518] Phintonis, according to Hardouin, is the modern Isola di Figo, according to Mannert, Caprera. Cluver makes Fossæ to be the present Isola Rossa, while Mannert considers it to be the same with Santa Maddalena.
[1519] Ταφρὸς being the Greek for the Latin word “fossa,” the ordinary meaning of which is an “excavation.”
[1520] Probably the Cape of Carbonara, from which however Africa is distant only 121 miles, and the gulf of Gades or Cadiz 980.
[1521] Now Capo Falcone.
[1522] Now Asinara or Zavara, and Isola Piana.