Capo Passero

Capo Passero
Capo Passero
	The fort of Capo Passero
	Sicily
	Coordinates: 36°41′18.4″N 15°09′06.1″E / 36.688444°N 15.151694°E

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Capo Passero or Cape Passaro (Sicilian: Capu Pàssaru; Greek: Πάχυνος; Latin: Pachynus or Pachynum) is a celebrated promontory of Sicily, forming the extreme southeastern point of the whole island, and one of the three promontories which were supposed to have given to it the name of "Trinacria". (Ovid, Fast. iv. 479, Met. xiii. 725; Dionys. Per. 467–72; Scyl. p. 4. § 13; Pol. i. 42; Strabo vi. pp. 265, 272, &c.; Plin. iii. 8. s. 14; Ptol. iii. 4. § 8; Mela, ii. 7. § 15.)