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CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. IL
tory of Bellaggio; while the only expression
which seems to distinguish it from many others is
not, in my opinion, applicable, in Pliny's sense, to
the spot in question. His words are—Hacunum
sinum molli curvamine amplectitur; ilia editis-
simo dorso duos dirimit. That the word sinus
may be understood of the two branches of the
lake I admit, but that it is not so extensively ap-
plied in this passage must appear evident, when
we consider that no villa, garden, nor park, can
be supposed to embrace in its windings one of the
branches of the lake, which is fifteen miles in
length; and consequently we may conclude that
the word sinus here signifies one of the little
bays formed by some of the numberless promon-
tories, that project from the shores between Como
and Cadenabbia,
I must here notice another mistake, into which
the same antiquaries seem to have fallen. They
suppose that the channel between the island above
described and the shore, is alluded to in the fol-
lowing words:—Quid Euripus viridis et gem-
meus*? Now it is evident from the context, that
the villa to which this Euripus belonged, was in
the immediate vicinity of Como, suburbanuni
* i. 3°
CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. IL
tory of Bellaggio; while the only expression
which seems to distinguish it from many others is
not, in my opinion, applicable, in Pliny's sense, to
the spot in question. His words are—Hacunum
sinum molli curvamine amplectitur; ilia editis-
simo dorso duos dirimit. That the word sinus
may be understood of the two branches of the
lake I admit, but that it is not so extensively ap-
plied in this passage must appear evident, when
we consider that no villa, garden, nor park, can
be supposed to embrace in its windings one of the
branches of the lake, which is fifteen miles in
length; and consequently we may conclude that
the word sinus here signifies one of the little
bays formed by some of the numberless promon-
tories, that project from the shores between Como
and Cadenabbia,
I must here notice another mistake, into which
the same antiquaries seem to have fallen. They
suppose that the channel between the island above
described and the shore, is alluded to in the fol-
lowing words:—Quid Euripus viridis et gem-
meus*? Now it is evident from the context, that
the villa to which this Euripus belonged, was in
the immediate vicinity of Como, suburbanuni
* i. 3°