(τὰ Ἀκροκεραύνια; tá Akrokeraúnia). Mountain range on the coast of Epirus (modern Karaburun in Albania), as a continuation of the Ceraunian Mountains on the territory of the Chaones, border to Illyria (Str. 7,7,5; Plin. HN 3,97,1; 145,2), also a peninsula with a length of 16 km and a breadth of 3-5 km, and up to 800 m in height, protecting the Gulf of Aulon (Vlores) and the port of Oricus. Because of its inhospitality and frequent storms metonymous for ‘dangerous places’ (Ov. Rem. am. 739; cf. ThLL 1, 42).
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N.G.L. Hammond, Epirus, 1…