PHILA one of the small islands on the south coast of Gallia, which Pliny (Plin. Nat. 3.5) enumerates between the Stoechades ( Isles d'Hières) and Lero and Lerina ( Les Lérins). Pliny's words are: Tres Stoechades . . . Ab his Sturium, Phoenice, Phila : Lero et Lerina adversum Antipolim.There seem to be no means of determining which of the islets between the Isles d Hièresand Sainte Margucriterepresent these three small islands of Pliny. [LERINA; LERON.]
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