TRIPOLY TO BENGAZI. 119 It must be confessed, at the same time that the reasoning of Signor Della CeUa on the words Xifriv and vcpoiog does not appear to be very satisfactory ; for even if we allow that the precise meaning of v<po(Mg may be open to conjecture, it seems evident that it implied a shelter of some kind for vessels, whether or not it might be considered to mean actually a port ; which is the signification that we should be disposed to attach to it in the passage of Strabo in question*. We do not, either, see why the word in the same passage may not be rendered lake, as weU as marsh ; for it is certainly used in that sense in many instances as well by Strabo as other Greek writers ; and there seems to be no reason why the marsh which we are describing may not have been in Strabo’s time a lake, particularly as he mentions it to have had a naval station {voixog) at its entrance, which could scarcely have been the case had it been nothing more than a marsh.

As a general description of the marsh above mentioned, we * We even feai' that to make the reasoning of Signor Della Celia at all consistent with itself, we must be obliged to suppose that he has again stated exactly the contrary of what he appears to have intended. His words are, “ Quanto alia stazione che rimaneva probabUmente alia sua imboccatura (meaning the mouth of the lake, or marsh in question). Non pud realmente dirsi che fosse porto, servendosi Strabone della voce y(pog;/.ov per porto e non di Xiptvn (Xi/nv is intended) la qual voce malamente trovasi tradutta da Buonaccinoli per molo. Cosi passo e passo a conto di Strabone si e fatto un porto e non e tosto mancato che le ha guarnito di molo.” (p. 75-6.) As i/(po§/xov, and not is the word used by Strabo in the passage in question, the deduction of Signor Della Celia may scarcely be made without reversing the words as we have stated.

Strabo distinguishes between Xiix-nv and in the following passage — speaking of the coast of the Cyrenaica from Apollonia to the Catabathmos — av ‘n»w Kxi 0X1701 xai t/ipog/xoi nai >i*Toi>ti«i x«i ySgsiai.— (Lib. 17, § 22.)