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ZEPHYEIUM. 227

satisfactorily with this account of Sar-
pedon ; for, on rounding that headland,
the plain through which the river passes,
opens at once upon the view : and it may
be added, that the noble cliffs and insular
appearance of Cape Cavaliere, render it
one of the most remarkable points on the
whole coast, and not likely to have been
altogether unnoticed by Strabo. Sarpe-
don was likewise the stipulated boundary
beyond which Antiochus was restrained
from passing, by his treaty with the Ro-
mans ;* it was therefore most proba-
bly some conspicuous point such as the
above cape, where the elbow in the line
of the coast would mark an obvious di-
vision in the contiguous sea.

The other cape, Zephyrium, has been
supposed to lie on the opposite, or eas-
tern side of the Calycadnus; but this
does not appear to be a necessary infer-
ence from the above expression of Strabo:
the contrary would rather seem to be i'fri-

* Livj, xxxviii. 38.

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