Acts 27:8
And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.
And hardly passing it,.... That is, Salmone, with great difficulty, because of the winds:
came unto a place which is called The fair havens; called by other writers Cale Acte, or the fair shore, and is placed by Ptolomy {c} in Eubaea, and by Herodotus {d} in Sicily; but by Stephanus {e} is said to be a city of the Cretians, and which agrees with this account;
nigh whereunto was the city of Lasae; there was a city in Crete called by Solinus {f} Lisson, and by Ptolomy {g} Lyssus, which he places on the south side of the island; and by Pliny {h} Lasos, which comes pretty near to this name, but then he places it in the midland part of Crete; who also makes mention of an island called Lasia over against Troezenium, and another that was one of the Cyclades; the Syriac version here read, "Lasia": Jerom {i} says, Lasea is a city on the shore of the island of Crete, near the place which is called the Fair Havens, as Luke himself explains it; for which some corruptly read "Thalassa"; as do the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions; and the Alexandrian copy "Alassa": Beza conjectures that it is the same with Eloea, which Pliny makes mention of in the above cited place, as a city in Crete.
{c} De ordis Situ. l. 3. c. 15.
{d} L. 6. c. 22.
{e} De urbibus.
{f} Polyhist. c. 16.
{g} Ib. l. 3. c. 17.
{h} L. 4. c. 12.
{i} De locis Hebraicis, fol. 96. D.