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ΤΥΡΡΗΝΙΚΗ ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑ (Θάλασσα) ΙΤΑΛΙΑ
Tyrrhenum Mare (To Turrhenikon pelagos), was the name given in ancient
times to the part of the Mediterranean sea which adjoins the W. coast of Italy.
It is evident from the name itself that it was originally employed by the Greeks,
who universally called the people of Etruria Tyrrhenians, and was merely adopted
from them by the Romans. The latter people indeed frequently used the term Tuscum
Mare (Liv. v. 33; Mel. ii. 4. § 9), but still more often designated the sea on
the W. of Italy simply as the lower sea, Mare Inferum, just as they termed the
Adriatic the upper sea or Mare Superum. (Mel. ii. 4. § 1; Plin. iii. 5. s. 10;
Liv. l. c.) The name of Tyrrhenum Mare was indeed in all probability never in
use among the Romans, otherwise than as a mere geographical term; but with the
Greeks it was certainly the habitual designation of that portion of the Mediterranean
which extended from the coast of Liguria to the N. coast of Sicily, and from the
mainland of Italy to the islands of Sardinia and Corsica on the W. (Polyb. i.
10, 14, &c.; Strab. ii. p. 122, v. p. 211, &c.; Dionys. Per. 83; Scyl. § § 15,
17; Agathem. ii. 14.) The period at which it came into use is uncertain; it is
not found in Herodotus or Thucydides, and Scylax is the earliest author now extant
by whom the name is mentioned.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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