Naulochus (island)

Naulochus (island)

Naulochus was an island, or rather reef, off the Sammonian promontory, in Crete described by ancient geographers (Plin. iv. 12), the same as the Naumachos of Pomponius Mela (ii. 7. § 13; Höck, Kreta, vol. i. p. 439.)

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