Book 7
7.5
Next is the promontory Chimerium, and a harbour called Glycys-Limen, [or Sweet Harbour,] where the river Acheron, which receives several other rivers, empties itself and renders fresh the water of the gulf. The ThyamusThe Thyamus, or Thyamis, is now called Glycys, and the Acheron, Calamas. flows near it. Above this gulf is situated Cichyrus, formerly Ephyra, a city of the Thesproti, and above the gulf at Buthrotum, Phoenice.Sopoto. Near Cichyrus is Buchetium, a small city of the Cassopaei, situated at a little distance from the sea; Elatria, Pandosia, and Batiae are in the inland parts. Their territory extends as far as the gulf. Next after the harbour Glycys-Limen are two others, Comarus,Porto Fanari. the nearest and smallest, forming an isthmus of 60 stadia, near the Ambracian Gulf and Nicopolis,The ruins of Nicopolis are to the north of Prevesa. founded by Augustus Caesar; the other, the more distant and larger, and better harbour, is near the mouth of the gulf, and distant from Nicopolis about 12 stadia.
