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 in Eubaea, and by Herodotus
F4 in Sicily; but by Stephanus
F5 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 Lisson,
and by Ptolomy F7 Lyssus, which he places on the south
side of the island; and by Pliny F8 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 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.