# Naturalis Historia 3.87

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

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87] in eo freto est scopulus Scylla, item Charybdis mare verticosum, ambae clarae saevitia. ipsius triquetrae, ut diximus, promunturium Pelorum vocatur adversus Scyllam vergens in Italiam, Pachynum in Graeciam,CCCCXL ab eo distante Peloponneso, Lilybaeum in Africam CLXXX intervallo a Mercuri promunturio et a Caralitano Sardiniae CXC. inter se autem promunturia ac latera distant his spatiis: terreno itinere a Peloro Pachymum CLXXVI, inde Lilybaeum CC, unde Pelorum CCXLII.

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