Port
Portus Tragecynus
Faro (Barrington)
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At the mouth of the river Simeto, on the coast of Sicily, the map places a harbour called Portus Tragecynus. Where it really lay is disputed. One identification puts it at Faro, on the strait facing the mainland, and links the odd name to the Latin traiectus, a crossing. Another sets it near Syracuse. A further idea holds that a headland was mistaken for a harbour at some stage of copying, perhaps the cape the Roman writer Pliny calls Caenus. The parchment is scuffed just here, and the second letter of the name can barely be read.