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Argaricus Sinus

Argaricus Sinus (Palk's Bay), a large bay of India intra Gangem, opposite to the island of Taprobane (Ceylon), between the promontory of Cory on the S., and the city of Curula on the N., with a city upon it named Argara or Argari. (Ptol. 1.13.1, 7.1.96; Arrian. Peripl.)

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.