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Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 1 (search)
from Sicily to gather flowers; and consequently it has become the custom among the women of Hipponium to gather flowers and to weave them into garlands, so that on festival days it is disgraceful to wear bought garlands. Hipponium has also a naval station, which was built long ago by Agathocles, the tyrant of the Siciliotes,The "Siciliotes" were Sicilian Greeks, as distinguished from native Sicilians. when he made himself master of the city. Thence one sails to the Harbor of Heracles,Now Tropea. But in fact the turn towards the west begins immediately after Hipponium. which is the point where the headlands of Italy near the Strait begin to turn towards the west. And on this voyage one passes Medma, a city of the same Locrians aforementioned, which has the same name as a great fountain there, and possesses a naval station near by, called Emporium. Near it is also the Metaurus River, and a mooring-place bearing the same name. Off this coast lie the islands of the Liparaei, at a d