[Footnote 1: In North Africa, the modern oasis of Siwah.]
[Footnote 2: Plemmyrium on one side, and the city of Syracuse on the
other, command the entrance of the gulf known as the Great Harbour,
inside of which lay the Athenian fleet and camp.]
[Footnote 3: Grote.]
[Footnote 4: Grote, Part II. ch. lx, points out that there is no real
contradiction between the statement cited from Timæus, and the
accounts gives of the transaction by Thucydides and Philistus.]