Acila
Ἀκίλα
Acila (Ἀκίλα), which seems to be identical with OCELIS (Ὄκηλις), now Zee Hill or Ghela, a seaport of the Sabaei Nomades, in Arabia Felix, a short distance to the S. of Mocha, and to the N. of the opening of the strait of Babel Mandeb. (Strab. p. 769; Plin. Nat. 6.23. s. 26, 28. s. 32; Ptol. 6.7.7.) By some geographers it is identified with the Βουλικάς of the Homeritae mentioned by Procopius (B.P. 1.19).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.