Back كابو باسيرو Arabic Cap Passero Catalan Capo Passero CEB Capo Passero Czech Capo Passero German Kabo Pasero EO Cap Passero French Capo Passero Italian Capu Pàssaru SCN
Capo Passero | |
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.JPG) The fort of Capo Passero | |
  Sicily | |
| Coordinates: 36°41′18.4″N 15°09′06.1″E / 36.688444°N 15.151694°E |
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Capo Passero or Cape Passaro (Sicilian: Capu Pàssaru; Greek: Πάχυνος; Latin: Pachynus or Pachynum) is a celebrated promontory of Sicily, forming the extreme southeastern point of the whole island, and one of the three promontories which were supposed to have given to it the name of "Trinacria". (Ovid, Fast. iv. 479, Met. xiii. 725; Dionys. Per. 467–72; Scyl. p. 4. § 13; Pol. i. 42; Strabo vi. pp. 265, 272, &c.; Plin. iii. 8. s. 14; Ptol. iii. 4. § 8; Mela, ii. 7. § 15.)