The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

VERS. I.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

Melita.

PLINY tells us s 1.1 that in the Sicilian Sea, Insulae sunt in Africam versae, Gauros, Milita, &c. there are Islands toward Africa, Gauros, Melita, from Camerina LXXXIV miles, from Lilybaeum CXIII. Ptolomy reckons it amongst the Maritime Islands of Africa. For thus he distinguisheth, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Islands adjacent to Africk, near the land. And, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the maritime Islands of Africk. Amongst these later we find the Island Melite in which was the City.

Melita	38.	45.	34.	40.
Chersonesus	38.	40.	34.	45.
Iuno's Temple	39.		34.	40.
Hercules Temple	38.	45.	36.	06.

t 1.2 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c. Before Pachynus lyeth Melita and Gaudus (Pliny calleth it Gauros) eighty three miles from both, (i. e. Sicily and Pachynus) both being distant eighty eight miles; where the Latin Interpr. saith furlongs, making a very vast defect in the measure. Whereas therefore according to the same Strabo u 1.3 the distance between Carthage and Lilybeum of Sicily was 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, One thousand five hundred furlongs, or near two hundred miles; and Melita from Lilybeum one hundred and thir∣teen miles, it is evident that Island was situated almost in the middle between the Sicilian and the African shore, anciently under the jurisdiction of Carthage. And from them per∣haps took the name of Melita, which in their language signifies evasion or escape, from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to escape, from the Mariners that sail out of Africa, escaping the danger of the Syr••es. It was certainly an escape to Paul and the rest that were shipwrackt with him in this place.

Notes

• s 1.1

  Nat. Hist. llb. 3. cap. 8.
• t 1.2

  Strab. lib. 6.
• u 1.3

  Ibid. lib. 17.