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268 ZEPHYRIUM.

the westward of Anchiale.; but, accord-
ing to Pliny, it was to the eastward oi
that city. Moreover, Strabo expressly
reminds his reader, that it has " the
same name as Zephyrium, near the
Calycadnus;" from which it may be
fairly inferred, that two places so near
to each other, and bearing the same
remarkable name, must have had some
leading feature in common. It would
appear, however, from Scylax and Pliny,
that there was also a town here of that
name, and D'Anville marks both town
and cape in his map. In the short
account which Mela gives of this part
of the coast, he places the promontory
of Ammodes between the Pyramus and
Cydnus; and as that name means sandy,
it probably belonged to the point in
question.

This low and dangerous point seems
to have been also called the Sari Ca-
pita, on which the greatest part of
the fleet of Antiochus was wrecked in
 
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