Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

Next to them are the Giligamae, who inhabit the country to the west as far as the island of +Geyve [30.3,40.533] (inhabited place), Sakarya, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Aphrodisias; in between lies the island of Platea, which the Cyrenaeans colonized, and on the mainland is the harbor called Menelaus, and the Aziris which was a settlement of the Cyrenaeans. Here the country of silphium begins,

which reaches from the island of Platea to the entrance of the Golfe de Gabes [10.417,34.000] (gulf), Tunis, AfricaSyrtis. This people is like the others in its customs.