in Ancient Geography, (Mela, Pliny); a part of the sea which the Romans called Mare Rubrum, and the Greeks Mare Erythreum; washing Arabia Felix on the east, between which and Carmania, entering into the land, it washes Persia on the south. Its large mouth consists of straight sides, like a neck, and then the land retiring equally a vast way, and the sea surrounding it in a large compass of shore, there is exhibited the figure of a human head (Mela). Theophrastus calls this bay Sinus Arabicus, a name it equally claims with Persicus, only for distinction sake Persicus is appropriated to it by others.