Acts 27:8

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 F3 De ordis Situ. l. 3. c. 15. in Eubaea, and by Herodotus F4 L. 6. c. 22. in Sicily; but by Stephanus F5 De urbibus. 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 F6 Polyhist. c. 16. Lisson, and by Ptolomy F7 Ib. l. 3. c. 17. Lyssus, which he places on the south side of the island; and by Pliny F8 L. 4. c. 12. 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 F9 De locis Hebraicis, fol. 96. D. 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.