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harbour of Pharos

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Canonical name
harbour of Pharos
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Kind
Location
Scope
Individual
Parent location
Pharos
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Claims

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·Remembered

Pharos’s harbor lets vessels that have taken in water reach the open sea.

See evidence text
“it has a good harbour from which vessels can get out into open sea when they have taken in water”

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1
·Remembered
“it has a good harbour”

Passage preview

Book 4 · Passage 29

‘I was trying to come on here, but the gods detained me in Egypt, for my hecatombs had not given them full satisfaction, and the gods are very strict about having their dues. Now off Egypt, about as far as a ship can sail in a day with a good stiff breeze behind her, there is an island called Pharos—it has a good harbour from which vessels can get out into open sea when they have taken in water—and here the gods becalmed me twenty days without so much as a breath of fair wind to help me forward. We should have run clean out of provisions and my men would have starved, if a goddess had not taken pity upon me and saved me in the person of Idothea, daughter to Proteus, the old man of the sea, for she had taken a great fancy to me.