[Footnote 66: Pliny (Hist. Nat. iii. 6, 16) allows
quinquaginta millia for this brevissimus cursus, and agrees
with the real distance from Otranto to La Vallona, or Aulon,
(D'Anville, Analyse de sa Carte des Cotes de la Grece, &c.,
p. 3 - 6.) Hermolaus Barbarus, who substitutes centum.
(Harduin, Not. lxvi. in Plin. l. iii.,) might have been
corrected by every Venetian pilot who had sailed out of the
gulf.]