Both terms, vasco and basque, are inherited from Latin ethnonym Vascones which in turn goes back to the Greek term οὐασκώνους ( ouaskōnous ), an ethnonym used by Strabo in his Geographica ( 23 CE, Book III ).

* Strabo Geographica ( ca.

Strabo is most famous for his 17-volume work Geographica, which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known to his era.

In his Geographica, Strabo refers to νεκρομαντία ( necyomanteis ), or " diviners by the dead ", as the foremost practitioners of divination amongst the people of Persia, and it is believed to have also been widespread amongst the peoples of Chaldea ( particularly the Sabians, or star-worshipers ), Etruria, and Babylonia.

The Ancient Greek historian Strabo ( Geographica Book 17, 1. 33 ) recorded in the 1st century BC the tale of the Greco-Egyptian girl Rhodopis, " rosy-cheeked ", who lived in the Greek colony of Naucratis in Ancient Egypt.

* Strabo, Geographica, 9. 4 ( ca.

** Geographica ( lost, criticized by Strabo )

Plato ( Charmides, 158C ) regarded Abaris as a physician from the far north, while Strabo reported Abaris was Scythian like the early philosopher Anacharsis ( Geographica, 7.

There are only three ancient sources on Burebista: Strabo: Geographica 7. 3. 5, 7. 3. 11 and 16. 2. 39 ( who spells his name Byrebistas and Boirebistas ); Jordanes: Getica 67 ( spells his name Buruista ); and a marble inscription found in Balchik, Bulgaria ( now found at the National Museum in Sofia ) which represents a decree by the citizens of Dionysopolis about Akornion.

Known since antiquity ( it was mentioned by Strabo in his Geographica and by Pliny ), the Georgian Military Road in its present form was begun by the Russian military in 1799.

The inhabitants or people of Thule are described in most detail by Strabo in his Geographica, having preserved fragments of the account of Pytheas who was an alleged eye-witness in the 4th century BC:

The Lugian federation was probably formed long before it was first recorded, in the works of Strabo ( Geographica ).

Strabo in his Geographica informs that, according to his sources, the Mysians in accordance with their religion abstained from eating any living thing, including from their flocks, and that they used as food honey and milk and cheese.

Around 20 AD, Strabo wrote the Geographica that provides information regarding the extent of regions inhabited by the Dacians.

( Strabo, Geographica 11. 2 )

Strabo relied greatly on this for books 8 through 10 of his own Geographica.

The concept of the three roles of bards, ovates and druids originates from the writings of the ancient Greek historian and geographer Strabo, who in his Geographica, written in the 20s CE, stated that amongst the Gauls, there were three types of honoured figures: the poets and singers known as bardoi, the diviners and specialists in the natural world known as o ' vateis, and those who studied " moral philosophy ", the druidai.

Strabo, one of the first ancient sources to mention Getae and Dacians, stated in his Geographica ( ca.

Strabo, who uses the word crocuttas, describes the beast as the mixed progeny of a wolf and a dog ( Geographica, XVI. 4. 16 ).

It is mentioned by Strabo in his Geographica as " an exceedingly well-governed city ".

Strabo confirms this, noting that in the 6th century, the sanctuary at Zela in Cappadocia was an artificial mound, walled in, but open to the sky ( Geographica XI. 8. 4. 512 ).

( Strabo, Geographica 11. 2 )

Strabo in his Geography, Book VII 3, 12, tells about the Daci-Getae division " Getae, those who incline towards the Pontus and the east, and Daci, those who incline in the opposite direction towards Germany and the sources of the Ister ".

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The Greco-Roman historian Strabo ( late 1st century BC-early 1st century AD ) described them as " wagon-dwellers " ( i. e. nomads ) ( Geographika, Book VII ).

The Ems was known to several ancient authors: Pliny the Elder in Natural History ( 4. 14 ), Tacitus in the Annals ( Book 1 ), Pomponius Mela ( 3. 3 ), Strabo and Ptolemy, Geography ( 2. 10 ).

Strabo in his Geography ( c. 30 ), Book I, Chapter 4, mentions Thule in describing Eratosthenes ' calculation of " the breadth of the inhabited world " and notes that Pytheas says it " is a six days ' sail north of Britain, and is near the frozen sea.

" Strabo adds the following in Book II, Chapter 5:

Strabo ultimately concludes, in Book IV, Chapter 5, " Concerning Thule, our historical information is still more uncertain, on account of its outside position ; for Thule, of all the countries that are named, is set farthest north.

This does not necessarily imply that Elisha had sought asylum there from any potential backlash, although the description in the Book of Amos, of the location being a refuge, is dated by textual scholars to be earlier than the accounts of Elisha in the Book of Kings, and according to Strabo it had continued to be a place of refuge until at least the first century.

The Younger Futhark became known in Europe as the " alphabet of the Norsemen ", and was studied in the interest of trade and diplomatic contacts, referred to as Abecedarium Nordmannicum in Frankish Fulda ( possibly by Walahfrid Strabo ) and ogam lochlannach " Ogham of the Scandinavians " in the Book of Ballymote.

" ( Strabo, Geographia, Book XV, Chap I ).

Ptolemy XII's personal cult name ( Neos Dionysos ) earned him the ridiculing sobriquet Auletes ( flute player ) — as we learn from Strabo's writing ( Strabo XVII, 1, 11 ):

The contemporary Greek geographer Strabo testifies that the Cimbri still existed as a Germanic tribe, presumably in the " Cimbric peninsula " ( since they are said to live by the North Sea and to have paid tribute to Augustus ):

The Ancient Greek chronicler Strabo mentioned that Gargareans had migrated from eastern Asia Minor ( i. e. Urartu ) to the North Caucasus.

If this is the case, it would make Gargarei virtually equivalent to the Georgian term Dzurdzuk ( referring to the lake Durdukka in the South Caucasus, where they are thought to have migrated from, as noted by Strabo, before intermixing with the local population ) which applied to a Nakh people who migrated North across the mountains to settle in modern Ingushetia.

The Ancient Greek chronicler Strabo mentioned that Gargareans had migrated from eastern Asia Minor ( i. e. Urartu ) to the North Caucasus.

Fra Mauro also comments that the account of this expedition, together with the relation by Strabo of the travels of Eudoxus of Cyzicus from Arabia to Gibraltar through the southern Ocean in Antiquity, led him to believe that the Indian Ocean was not a closed sea and that Africa could be circumnavigated by her southern end ( Text from Fra Mauro map, 11, G2 ).

It probably was a Thracian town, as Strabo has it, but was afterwards colonized by Milesians, with the consent of Gyges, king of Lydia, around 700 BC.

Walafrid Strabo, a monk of the Abbey of St. Gall writing in the 9th century, remarked, in discussing the people of Switzerland and the surrounding regions, that only foreigners called them the Alemanni, but that they gave themselves the name of Suevi.

In legend, Amarynthus ( a form of Amarantus ) was a hunter of Artemis and king of Euboea ; in a village of Amarynthus, of which he was the eponymous hero, there was a famous temple of Artemis Amarynthia or Amarysia ( Strabo x.

According to Strabo, he was born in Naryx in Locris, where Ovid calls him Narycius Heroes.

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

Three separate sources were combined to form fr. 350, as mentioned above, including a prose paraphrase from Strabo that first needed to be restored to its original meter, a synthesis achieved by the united efforts of Otto Hoffmann, Karl Otfried Muller and Franz Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens.

His Cynaedi, or Ionic poems (), are mentioned by Strabo and Athenaeus.

Strabo makes him the ( probably legendary ) inventor of the anchor with two flukes, and others made him the inventor of the potter's wheel.

He was at the head of the Peripatetic school at Rome, about 58 BC, and was the teacher of Boethus of Sidon, with whom Strabo studied.

At the port city of Jaffa ( today part of Tel Aviv ) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.

Two important geographers, Strabo and Pliny, are silent concerning the Angles.

" However, both Strabo and Pliny describe that shore.

Strabo ( 7. 2. 1, 4 and 7. 3. 1 ) states that the Cimbri still live on the peninsula ( Jutland ) where they always did, even though some of them liked to wander.

Strabo worked eastward from the Rhine.

For Strabo, the Suebi were to the south of the coast.

Other ancient historians and philosophers believing in the existence of Atlantis were Strabo and Posidonius.

; statements as to the origin of gods, cults and so forth, transmitted to us by Hellenic antiquarians such as Strabo, Pausanias, Diodorus Siculus, etc.

The settlements to which Strabo refers ( viii.