Italy and Sicily
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Italy · Sicily
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On the Commonwealth
Regions visited by Plato to study Pythagorean philosophy.
but you have heard, I believe, Tubero, that after the death of Socrates, Plato journeyed first into Egypt to learn, and afterward into Italy and Sicily, that he might thoroughly master the discoveries of Pythagoras;
History of the Peloponnesian War
Western Greek territories toward which the sea route along Corcyra was considered strategically important.
And at the same time the island appeared to them to lie well in the line of voyage along shore to Italy and Sicily.
For it lies well for the voyage along shore to Italy and Sicily, so as both to prevent a navy from coming thence to the Peloponnesians, and to help on its way a fleet from these parts to those;