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Trapani

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Tra·pa·ni  (träp-n, -pä-)
A city of northwest Sicily, Italy, on the Mediterranean Sea west-southwest of Palermo. An important Cathaginian naval base, it fell to Rome in 241 b.c. Population: 70,600.
Trapani (Italian) [ˈtraːpani]
n
(Placename) a port in S Italy, in NW Sicily: Carthaginian naval base, ceded to the Romans after the First Punic War. Pop.: 72 840 (1990)


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I suspect that the authoress in her mind makes Telemachus come back from Pylos to the Lilybaean promontory and thence to Trapani through the strait between the Isola Grande and the mainland--the island of Asteria being the one on which Motya afterwards stood.
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