Σύρτις: Difference between revisions

|txtha=(Lachmann [[Σύρτις]]; cf. Tdf. Proleg., p. 103; Chandler § 650), Συρτισεως, accusative Σύρτιν, ἡ ([[σύρω]], [[which]] [[see]] (others from Arabic sert, i. e. '[[desert]]'; others [[besides]], [[see]] Pape, Eigennamen, [[under]] the [[word]])), Syrtis, the [[name]] of [[two]] places in the African or Libyan Sea [[between]] [[Carthage]] and Cyrenaica, [[full]] of [[shallows]] and sandbanks, and [[therefore]] [[destructive]] to ships; the [[western]] Syrtis, [[between]] the islands Cercina and Meninx (or the promontories of Zeitha and Brachodes), [[was]] called Syrtis [[minor]], the [[eastern]] (extending from the [[promontory]] of Cephalae on the Winer s Grammar, to [[that]] of Boreum on the E.) [[was]] called Syrtis major (sinus Psyllicus); [[this]] [[latter]] [[must]] be the [[one]] referred to in B. D. [[under]] the [[word]] <TOPIC:Quicksands>.)