Polybius on the topography of Sicily

The following account, from Polybius's History of the World, 1.42, describes the geographical situation of Sicily. The text is offered here in the translation by W. R. Paton, and was taken from LacusCurtius.

Polybius on the Topography of Sicily

[1.42] Sicily, then, as a whole occupies the same position with regard to Italy and its extremity that the Peloponnese occupies with regard to Greece and its extremity, the difference lying in this, that th