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The source has Ἡρακλέους στήλας. Wiktionary tells me that's more like blocks of Heracles, or slabs or monuments.

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext... (press "focus" to swap language)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AE%CE%BB%CE%B...

It's kind of completely unambiguous though, given all the details:

> from a distant point in the Atlantic ocean,

> the ocean there was at that time navigable;

> in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,'

The location is clearly out in the unnavigable Atlantic, and the [whatever] of Heracles form a mouth.



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