There is reference on a Greek papyrus from 163 BCE to the procedure being conducted on girls in Memphis, the ancient Egyptian capital, and Strabo ( c. 64 BCE – c. 23 CE ), the Greek geographer, reported it when he visited Egypt in 25 BCE.

The Geography ( XXIII, 11 ) of Strabo ( 64 / 63 BC – ca.

Strabo (; Strabōn ; 64 / 63 BCE – ca.

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The Greek historian Strabo ( c. 64 BC – 24 AD ) also mentions " tombs of those who fell in the battle " erected at public expense in Chaeronea.

The rest of fr. 350 was paraphrased in prose by the historian / geographer Strabo.

Nansen and others prefer to give the cotangent 209 / 600, which is the inverse of the tangent, but the angle is greater than 45 ° and it is the tangent that Strabo states.

The Statue of Strabo at his homeland, Amasya / Turkey, along the Iris River

Near the eastern shore of the island of Gades / Gadeira ( modern Cádiz, just beyond the strait ) Strabo describes the westernmost temple of Tyrian Heracles, the god with whom Greeks associated the Phoenician and Punic Melqart, by interpretatio graeca.

Strabo, on the other hand, correlates his accession with internal Seleucid wars in 223 / 221 BCE.

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The people mentioned by Strabo as Οΰγρου / Ugroi / might also be identified with the ancient Hungarians, although it is more plausible that he referred to one of the tribes of the Sarmatians.

In 1439, the Greek philosopher Gemistos Plethon, attending the Council of Florence, acquainted Toscanelli with the extensive travels, writings and mapping of the 1st century BC / AD Greek geographer Strabo, hitherto unknown in Italy.

It is therefore, very likely that the Asioi / Asii or Asiani of Strabo may have been or part of the people of Parama-Kamboja ( the bigger and the further branch of the Kambojas and Parama-Rishikas living in Scythia or Shaka-dvipa, across the Hindukush / Himalaya ) in Transoxiana region.

It is therefore, very likely that the Asioi / Asii or Asiani of Strabo may have been or part of the people of Parama-Kamboja ( the bigger and the further branch of the Kambojas and Parama-Rishikas living in Scythia or Shaka-dvipa, across the Hindukush / Himalaya ) in Transoxiana region.

A view has been held that the clan names like Osii, Asioi, and Aseni of Indika of Megasthenes equate to Asii referred to by Strabo and Asiani as referred to in Historiae Philippicae by Trogue Pompey and further, they also equate to the Aspasioi ( Aspasii, Hipasii ) and Assakenoi ( Assacenii / Assacani ) clans of upper Indus referred to as Aśvayana and Aśvakayana in Pāṇini's Ashtadhyayi.

Strabo ( c. 63 BC –- 24 AD ) reports that King Ateas united under his power the Scythian tribes living between the Maeotian marshes and the Danube.

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Strabo, the Greek geographer, reported the practice's existence in Egypt when he visited in 25 BCE.

* Strabo, Greek geographer, who visited during the Roman conquest in the late 1st century BCE.

After the death of King Tigranes I in 95 BCE, Tigranes bought his freedom, according to Strabo, by handing over " seventy valleys " in Atropatene to the Parthians.

Often historians assume, as a general rule, that autochthonous inhabitants survive an invasion as an under-class where they do not retreat to mountain districts, so it is interesting to hear in Deipnosophistae that Philippus of Theangela ( a 4th century BCE historian ) referred to Leleges still surviving as serfs of the " true Carians ", and even later Strabo attributes to the Leleges a distinctive group of deserted forts and tombs in Caria that were still known in his day as " Lelegean forts "; the Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 identified these as ruins that could still be traced ranging from the neighborhood of Theangela and Halicarnassus as far north as Miletus, the southern limit of the " true Carians " of Pherecydes.

Regardless, Seleucus and Chandragupta ultimately reached a settlement and through a treaty sealed in 305 BCE, Seleucus, according to Strabo, ceded a number of territories to Chandragupta, including southern Afghanistan and parts of Persia.

At this time it was evidently a place of importance and a strong fortress, but it was so severely punished for its defection by Sulla after the final defeat of the Samnites in 84 BCE, that Strabo speaks of it as in his time utterly deserted.

In the west the Parthian king Mithradates I began to enlarge his kingdom and attacked Eucratides ; the city of Herat fell in 167 BCE and the Parthians succeeded in conquering two provinces between Bactria and Parthia, called by Strabo the country of Aspiones and Turiua.

The foundation of Himera is placed subsequent to that of Mylae ( as, from their relative positions, might naturally have been expected ) both by Strabo and Scymnus Chius: its date is not mentioned by Thucydides, but Diodorus tells us that it had existed 240 years at the time of its destruction by the Carthaginians, which would fix its first settlement in 648 BCE.

The Indo-Greek king Menander I ( reigned 160-135 BCE ) had his capital in Sagala, in today ’ s northern Punjab, and is described by Strabo as one of the most powerful Greek kings of the period, even greater than Alexander the Great.

The rise of the Bruttian people from this fortuitous aggregation of rebels and fugitives is assigned by Diodorus to the year 356 BCE ; and this accords with the statement of Strabo that they arose at the period of the expedition of Dion against the younger Dionysius.

According to the Greek historian Strabo, the Greeks " extended their empire even as far as the Seres and the Phryni " ( Strabo XI. II. I ), possibly leading to the first known contacts between China and the West around 200 BCE.

the 9th century BCE ( see also Ukrainian stone stela ), and across the Caucasus into Anatolia and Assyria in the late 8th century BCE, and possibly also west into Europe as the Thracians ( see Thraco-Cimmerian ), and the Sigynnae, located by Herodotus beyond the Danube, north of the Thracians, and by Strabo near the Caspian Sea.

The Hellenic city of Olbia was refounded on the Phoenician settlement that dated to the fourth century BCE ; Olbia is mentioned by the geographer Strabo ( IV. 1. 5 ) as a city of the Massiliotes that was fortified " against the tribe of the Salyes and against those Ligures who live in the Alps.

The geographer Strabo states that in the 1st century BCE, there were many small kingdoms under Roman domination.

* Walafrid Strabo ( c 808 – 49 )

The classicist Roger Bagnall estimated that there was one bureaucrat for every 5 – 10, 000 people in Egypt based on 400 or 800 bureaucrats for 4 million inhabitants ( no one knows the population of the province in 300 AD ; Strabo 300 years earlier put it at 7. 5 million, excluding Alexandria ).

* 849 – Walafrid Strabo

* Greek geographer Strabo publishes Geography, a work covering the world known to the Romans and Greeks at the time of Emperor Augustus – it is the only such book to survive from the ancient world.

* August 18 – Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian

There is no substantiated written reference for Myra before it was listed as a member of the Lycian alliance ( 168 BC – AD 43 ); according to Strabo ( 14: 665 ) it was one of the largest towns of the alliance.

* Strabo – notice 57

Writing at about 100 years after the end of the Social War ( 91 – 88 BC ), a failed last attempt of the italic tribes to form a union, Italy, that would compete with Rome in power and influence, the Roman geographer, Strabo, placed the location of the Vestini as he knew it to be as follows.

121 BC – 88 BC ) was an orator and statesman of the Roman Republic, legate in 89 to Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo in the Social War, and in 88 tribune of the plebs.

The most considerable towns of the interior were Gangra – in ancient times the capital of the Paphlagonian kings, afterwards called Germanicopolis, situated near the frontier of Galatia – and Pompeiopolis, in the valley of the Amnias river, near extensive mines of the mineral called by Strabo sandarake ( red arsenic or arsenic sulfide ), largely exported from Sinope.

* Strabo ( other consul ) left in sole command – decisive engagement defeated Italian Army of 60, 000 men – after success forces Asculum to surrender

Xylander was the author of a number of important works, including Latin translations of Dio Cassius ( 1558 ), Plutarch ( 1560 – 1570 ) and Strabo ( 1571 ).

According to Strabo the Lugians were ' a great people ' and — together with other peoples like Semnones and the otherwise unknown Zumi, Butones, Mugilones and Sibini — were part of a federation subjected to the rule of Marbod, ruler of the Marcomanni with their centre in modern Bohemia 9 BC – 19 AD.

The fragmentary oldest Life was recast in the 9th century by two monks of Reichenau, enlarged in 816 – 824 by the celebrated Wettinus, and about 833 – 884 by Walafrid Strabo, who also revised a book of the miracles of the saint.

He also had a Greek ambassador at his court, named Deimachus ( Strabo 1 – 70 ).

* Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus ( c. 130 – 87 BC ), son of Lucius Julius Caesar II and Poppilia

Historically, in Europe, Walahfrid Strabo ( 808 – 849 ), abbot and poet from Reichenau, advisor to the Carolingian kings, discussed it in his Latin Hortulus as one of the 23 plants of an ideal garden.