• The Apennines, whose long chain ends in Calabria, opposite Cape Peloro in Sicily. Aeneid , III 410, Davidson’s Tr. :⁠— “But when, after setting out, the wind shall waft you to the Sicilian coast, and the straits of narrow Pelorus shall open wider to the eye, veer to the land on the left, and to the sea on the left, by a long circuit; fly the right both sea and shore. These lands, they say, once with violence and vast desolation convulsed, (such revolutions a long course of time is able to produce,) slipped asunder; when in continuity both lands were one, the sea rushed impetuously between, and by its waves tore the Italian side from that of Sicily; and with a narrow frith runs between the fields and cities separated by the shores. Scylla guards the right side, implacable Charybdis the left, and thrice with the deepest eddies of its gulf swallows up the vast billows, headlong in, and again spouts them out by turns high into the air, and lashes the stars with the waves.” And Lucan, Pharsalia , II :⁠— “And still we see on fair Sicilians sands Where part of Apennine Pelorus stands.” And Shelley, “Ode to Liberty”:⁠— “O’er the lit waves every Aeolian isle From Pithecusa to Pelorus Howls, and leaps, and glares in chorus.” ↩