# Naturalis Historia 3.86

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 3. Latin.

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86] Verum ante omnes claritate Sicilia, Sicania Thucydidi dicta, Trinacria pluribus aut Trinacia a triangula specie, circuitu patens, ut auctor est Agrippa,DCXVIII p., quondam Bruttio agro cohaerens, mox interfuso nari avulsa,XV in longitudinem freto, in latitudinem autem M:D p. iuxta Columnam Regiam. ab hoc dehiscendi argumento Rhegium Graeci nomen dedere oppido in margine Italiae sito.

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