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ἄκρην. That is, the promontory (Cap St. André) at the end of the long tongue of land now ‘the Carpass’, called by Ptolemy (v. 13. 3) οὐρὰ βοός. Strabo (682) is more exact in limiting the name αἱ κλεῖδες to the rocky islands off the point, as the plural indicates (Hogarth, Devia Cypria, 81 f.).

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