128. For the perfect description of the Straits of Messina,
Scylla, Charybdis, etc., see Cluverius (Ital. Antiq. l. iv.
p. 1293, and Silicia Antiq. l. i. p. 60-76), who had
diligently studied the ancients and surveyed with a curious
eye the actual face of the country.