, a harbor or roadstead on the south side of the island of Crete, mentioned in Paul’s voyage to Rome (Acts 27:8). It is identified with a small bay a little to the north-east of Cape Matala. It is a fair winter-harbor, but inferior to that of Phenice or Phœnix, about forty miles farther westward. . This word occurs only in Ezek. 27, and there no less than seven times (vs. 12, 14, 16, 19, 22, 27, 33). In the last of these verses the original Hebrew word is rendered “wares,” but it