# Naturalis Historia 5.41

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 5. Latin.

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41] Insulas non ita multas complectuntur haec maria. clarissima est Meninx, longitudine XXV, latitudine XXII, ab Eratosthene Lotophagitis appellata; oppida habet duo, Meningen ab Africae latere et altero Thoar, ipsa a dextro Syrtis Minoris promunturio passibus MD sita. ab ea C p. contra laevum Cercina cum urbe eiusdem nominis libera, longa XXV, lata dimidium eius, ubi plurimum, at in extremo non plus V. huic perparva Carthaginem versus Cercinitis ponte iungitur.

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