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45: 61: 420: 68: 365: 279:, Ptol. iii. 4. § 7) to a point on the south coast of the island, a little to the west of Cape Pachynus. It is therefore probable that the Portus Pachyni was the one now called Porto di Palo, immediately adjoining the promontory, while the Portus Odysseae may be identified with Pantano Longarini. 282:
The convenience of this port at the extreme southeast point of the island caused it to be a frequent place of rendezvous and station for fleets approaching Sicily; and on one occasion, during the
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Ancient geographers correctly describe it as extending out towards the south and east so as to be the point of Sicily that was the most nearly opposite to
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was stationed under his officer Cleomenes, when the news that a squadron of pirates was in the neighbouring Port of Ulysses (
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v. 34) there was a port in the immediate neighborhood of the promontory to which he gives the name of Portus Pachyni (modern
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In 1718, the seas off the promontory were the site of a great naval battle (called the
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appears to have taken up his post in the port to the west of the promontory, while the
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iii. 699), and immediately off it lies a small rocky island (the
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Index

Pachynus
The fort of Capo Passero
Capo Passero is located in Sicily
36°41′18.4″N 15°09′06.1″E / 36.688444°N 15.151694°E / 36.688444; 15.151694
Sicilian
Greek
Latin
Sicily
Ovid
Scyl.
Pol.
Strabo
Plin.
Ptol.
Mela
Crete
Peloponnese
Virg.
Aen.
Isola di Capo Passero
Nonnus
Lycophron
Cicero
Portopalo di Capo Passero
Verres
Portus Odysseae
Ptolemy
Second Punic War
Carthaginian
Bomilcar

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