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Syrtes
the Syrtes
The dangerous shoals and quicksands off the North African coast.
Reading notes
- The Aeneid §1.111 Syrtes
The dangerous shoals and quicksands off the North African coast.
- The Aeneid §4.41 Syrtis
The treacherous shoal-waters off the Libyan coast.
- The Aeneid §6.62 Syrtes
The treacherous sand-shoals off the North African coast.
- The Aeneid §10.679 Syrtes
The treacherous sandbanks off North Africa, into which Turnus wildly begs the winds to drive him.