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OGYGIA

Volume 15 · 53 words · 1823 Edition

(Homer), the island of Calypso; placed by Pliny in the Sinus Scylaeus, in the Ionian sea, opposite to the promontory Lacinium; by Mela in the strait of Sicily, calling it Eeae; which others place at the promontory Circeum, and call it the island of Circe. Also the ancient name of Thebes in Boeotia.