Quicksand, ἡ Σὐρτις

Acts 27:17
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The Syrtis is a quicksand on the north African coast between longitude 10° and 20° E. (Acts 27:1717Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven. (Acts 27:17)). There are properly two, called the major and the minor; it would have been the major one on the east of the bay that they were in danger of. It is now called the Gulf of Sidra.