PRASO´DES SINUS(Πρασώδης κόλπος, Ptol. 7.4.4), a gulf which Ptolemy places on the SW. side of the island of Taprobane or Ceylon. No such gulf can now be traced upon the outline of this island; and there would seem to be some confusion between the gulf and a sea to which the geographer gives the same name of Πρασώδης, and which he makes extend along the parallel between the island of Menuthias ( Zanzibar?) and the Gulf of Siam(7.2.1).
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