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LIGYRIA (Ancient country) ITALY
Ligusticum-mare (to Ligustikon pelagos, Strab. ii. p. 122), was the
name given in ancient times to that part of the Mediterranean sea which adjoined
the coast of Liguria, and lay to the N. of the Tyrrhenian sea. The name was applied
(like all similar appellations) with considerable vagueness, sometimes as limited
to what is now called the Gulf of Genoa, in which sense it is termed the Ligusticus
sinus by Florus (iii. 6. § 9), - at others in a much wider sense, so that Pliny
speaks of Corsica as an island in Ligustico mart. Some of the Greek geographers
included under the name the whole extent from the frontiers of Spain to those
of Etruria, comprising the MARE Gallicum of the Romans, or the modern Gulf of
Lyons. The more limited use of the name seems, however, to have been the more
usual, at all events in later times, and is elsewhere adopted by Pliny himself.
(Plin. iii. 5. s. 10, 6. s. 12; Strab. l. c. ; Ptol. iii. 1. § 3; Agathem. i.
3; Dionys. Per. 76 ; Priscian, Per. 80.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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