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After the islandSee 7. 3. 17. that lies off the Borysthenes, and next towards the rising sun, one sails to the capeNow Cape Tendra. of the Race Course of Achilles, which, though a treeless place, is called Alsosi.e.,, “a grove”; the word usually means a sacred precinct planted with trees, but is often used of any sacred precinct. and is sacred to Achilles. Then comes the Race Course of Achilles, a peninsulaThe western part (now an island) of this peninsula is called “Tendra,” and the eastern, “Zharylgatch” (or Djarilgatch”). According to ancient legends Achilles pursued Iphigenia to this peninsula and there practised for his races. that lies flat on the sea; it is a ribbon-like stretch of land, as much as one thousand stadia in length, extending towards the east; its maximum breadth is only two stadia, and its minimum only four plethra,The plethron was one-sixth of a stadium, or 100 feet. and it is only sixty stadia distant from the mainland that lies on either side of the neck. It is sandy,We would call it a “sand-bank.” and water may be had by digging. The neck of the isthmus is near the center of the peninsula and is about forty stadia wide. It terminates in a cape called Tamyrace,Now Cape Czile. which has a mooring-place that faces the mainland. And after this cape comes the Carcinites Gulf. It is a very large gulf, reaching up towards the north as far as one thousand stadia; some say, however, that the distance to its recess is three times as much. The people there are called Taphrians. The gulf is also called Tamyrace, the same name as that of the cape.
