# Naturalis Historia 4.55-56

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 4.55 to 4.56. Latin.

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55] ab ea Ithaca XV distat, in qua mons Neritus; tota vero circuitu patet XXV. ab ea Araxum, Peloponnesi promunturium,XV. ante hanc in alto Asteris, Prote, ante Zacynthum XXXV in eurum ventum Strophades duae, ab aliis Plotae dictae, ante Cephallaniam Letoia, ante Pylum III Sphagiae, totidem ante Messenen Oenussae. 56] in Asinaeo sinu tres Thyrides, in Laconico Theganusa, Cothon, Cythera cum oppido, antea Porphyris appellata. haec sita est a Maleae promunturio V passuum, ancipiti propter angustias ibi navium ambitu. in Arrgolico Pityusa, Arine, Ephyre. contra Herminium agrum Tricarenus, Aperopia, Colonis, Aristera,

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