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17: 141: 99:(modern Calabria), situated on the shores of an extensive bay, to which it gave the name of Scylleticus Sinus. It is this bay, still known as the Gulf of Squillace, which indents the coast of Calabria on the east as deeply as that of Hipponium or Terina (the 130:; at least it is difficult to explain otherwise the peculiar manner in which he speaks of the Terinaean gulf, while relating the voyage of Gylippus along the east coast of Bruttium. 75:
The gulf is part of the Ionian Sea and makes up part of the east coast of the region of Calabria. It takes its present-day name from the coastal town of
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The Scylleticus Sinus, or Gulf of Squillace, was always regarded as dangerous to mariners; hence
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Anciently known as Scylleticus Sinus, from the ancient coastal city of
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Ionian Sea
Calabrian
Italy
Squillace
Scylletium
Strabo
Bruttium
Gulf of Saint Euphemia
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Antiochus of Syracuse
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