CORSICA

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

In Ligustico mari est Corsica, quam Graeci cyrnon appellavere, sed Tusco propior, a septentrione in meridiem proiecta, longa passuum CL, lata maiore ex parte L???, circuitu CCCXXV. abest a Vadis Volaterranis LXII, civitates habet XXXII et colonias Marianam, a C. Mario deductam, Aleriam, a dictatore Sulla. citra est Oglasa, intra vero, etLX p. a Corsica, Planasia a specie dicta, aequalis freto ideoque navigiis fallax. amplior Vrgo et Capraria, quam Graeci Aegilion dixere, item Igilium et dianium, quam Artemisiam, ambae contra Cosanum litus, et Barpana, Menaria, Columbaria, Venaria, Ilva cum ferri metallis, circuitus C???, a Populonio X???, a Graecis Aethalia dicta. ab ea PlanasiaXXVIII. ab iis ultra Tiberina ostia in Antiano Astura, mox Palmaria, Sinonia, adversum Formias Pontiae. in Puteolano autem sinu Pandateria, Prochyta, non ab Aeneae nutrice, sed quia profusa ab Aenaria erat, Aenaria a statione navium Aeneae, Homero Inarime dicta, Pithecusa, non a simiarum multitudine, ut aliqui existimavere, sed a figlinis doliorum. inter Pausilypum et Neapolim Megaris, mox a Surrento VIII distantes Tiberi principis arce nobiles Capreae circuitu XI.M, Leucothea extraque conspectum pelagus Africum attingens Sardinia, minus VIII p. a Corsicae extremis, etiamnum angustias eas artantibus insulis parvis, quae Cuniculariae appellantur, itemque Phintonis et Fossae, a quibus fretum ipsum Taphros nominatur.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

In the Ligurian Sea, but close to the Tuscan, is Corsica, by the Greeks called Cyrnos, extending, from north to south 150 miles, and for the most part 50 miles in breadth, its circumference being 325. It is 62 miles distant from the Vada Volaterrana. It contains thirty-two states, and two colonies, that of Mariana, founded by C. Marius, and that of Aleria, founded by the Dictator Sylla. On this side of it is Oglasa, and, at a distance of less than sixty miles from Corsica, Planaria, so called from its appearance, being nearly level with the sea, and consequently treacherous to mariners.

We next have Urgo, a larger island, and Capraria, which the Greeks have called Ægilion; then Igilium and Dianium, which they have also called Artemisia, both of them opposite the coast of Cosa; also Barpana, Mænaria, Columbaria, and Venaria. We then come to Ilva with its iron mines, an island 100 miles in circumference, 10 miles distant from Populonium, and called Æthalia by the Greeks: from it the island of Planasia is distant 28 miles. After these, beyond the mouths of the Tiber, and off the coast of Antium, we come to Astura, then Palmaria and Sinonia, and, opposite to Formiæ, Pontiæ. In the Gulf of Puteoli are Pandateria, and Prochyta, so called, not from the nurse of Æneas, but because it has been poured forth or detached from Ænaria, an island which received its name from having been the anchorage of the fleet of Æneas, though called by Homer Inarime; it is also called Pithecusa, not, as many have fancied, on account of the multitudes of apes found there, but from its extensive manufactories of pottery. Between Pausilipum and Neapolis lies the island of Megaris, and then, at a distance of eight miles from Surrentum, Capreæ, famous for the castle of the emperor Tiberius: it is eleven miles in circumference.

Leucothea comes next, and after it, but out of sight, as it lies upon the verge of the African Sea, Sardinia. It is situate somewhat less than eight miles from the nearest point of Corsica, and the Straits between them are even still more reduced by the small islands there situate, called the Cuniculariæ, as also those of Phintonis and Fossæ, from which last the Straits themselves have obtained the name of Taphros.