River
Fluvius Macra
Magra
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On the Tabula the Fluvius Macra reaches the sea between Luna and Pisa, the same mistake the Greek geographer Strabo made, for the real Magra flows out beside Luna, and scholars recognise it in a nameless river drawn next to the town's pair of towers. The Roman writer Pliny called it the end of Liguria, and under Augustus it divided Liguria from Etruria. The poet Lucan knew it as slow and shallow, no use for boats, yet marble from Luna's quarries was shipped from its mouth, where one spot is still called Marmorata.