In letter 89, Le Vayer, after mentioning Strabo's scornful opinion of Pytheas's account of a region in the far north where land, sea, and air seemed to mingle in a single gelatinous substance, adds:

Virgil took pleasure in translating etymologies of Greek names by combining them with adjectives that explained them: for Atlas his adjective is durus, " hard, enduring ", which suggested to George Doig that Virgil was aware of the Greek τλήναι " to endure "; Doig offers the further possibility that Virgil was aware of Strabo's remark that the native North African name for this mountain was Douris.

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 name of Maciste ultimately comes from a sentence in Strabo's Geography ( Book 8, Chapter 3, Section 21 ), in which he writes: — " And in the middle is the temple of the Macistian Heracles, and the river Acidon.

One may come across many references of the " Vrilissos " ( or alternatively " Vrilittos ") name in some of Thucydides, Herodotus and Strabo's writings.

The Pontius Pilate legend of Ponza's name has recently come into dispute amongst historians, because the name " Pontia " appears in Strabo's Geography.

In a 2nd century BC inscription recording a decree of Histria honouring Agathocles, the region already was named Scythia, while the earliest usage of the name " Scythia Minor " ( Mikrá Skythia ) in literature is found in Strabo's early 1st-century Geography.

Kambysēnē ) as well as the river names Cyrus ( Kurosh ) and Cambyses ( Kambujiya ) occurring in Strabo's Geography and Pliny's Histories may be related to the ethno-geographical name Kambuja / Kamboja and Kuru of the Sanskrit texts.

Strabo's statement that the Moesian people spoke the same language as the Dacians and Getae is confirmed by the distribution of placenames, attested in Ptolemy's Geographia, which carry the Dacian suffix-dava (" town " or " fort ").

Strabo's Geography ( 1. 2. 10 ) reports that in antiquity, the Black Sea was often just called " the Sea " ( ho pontos ).

" Edwards suggested that the pyramid was entered by robbers after the end of the Old Kingdom and sealed and then reopened more than once until Strabo's door was added.

Strabo's Iberia was delineated from Keltikē by the Pyrenees and included the entire land mass south-west ( he named it " west ") of there.

It was also the title of a play by Menander, which we know of from book seven ( concerning Alexandria ) of Strabo's 17 volume Geography, and quotations of Menander by Clement of Alexandria and Stobaeus that relate to marriage.

The mare concretum appears to match Strabo's pepēguia thalatta and is probably the same as the topoi (" places ") mentioned in Strabo's apparent description of spring drift ice, which would have stopped his voyage further north and was for him the ultimate limit of the world.

East-west distance was a matter of contention to the geographers ; they are one of Strabo's most frequent topics.

These theories are speculative but perhaps less so than Strabo's contention that Pytheas was a charlatan just because a professional geographer doubted him.

Strabo's life was characterized by extensive travels.

It is not known precisely when Strabo's Geography was written, though comments within the work itself place the finished version within the reign of Emperor Tiberius.

The first of Strabo's major works, Historical Sketches ( Historica hypomnemata ), written while he was in Rome ( ca.

Although Tyrannion was also a Peripatetic, he was more relevantly a respected authority on geography, a fact obviously significant, considering Strabo's future contributions to the field.

Unlike the Aristotelian Xenarchus and Tyrannion that preceded him in teaching Strabo, Athenodorus was Stoic in mindset, almost certainly the source of Strabo's diversion from the philosophy of his former mentors.

Strabo's last wife was Cosconia Gallita, sister of Servius Cornelius Lentulus Maluginensis ( suffect consul in 10 ) and Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio ( suffect consul in 2 ), and perhaps half-sister of Quintus Junius Blaesus ( suffect consul in 10 ).

The city was described in Strabo's Geographica:

Myrsini is named after the ancient city of Myrsinos or Myrtountion ( named in Homer's Iliad and in Strabo's Geographica V ), which was located in the area.

According to Poseidonius, later reported in Strabo's Geography, the monsoon wind system of the Indian Ocean was first sailed by Eudoxus of Cyzicus in 118 or 116 BC.

But this theory, based on the testimony of the Augustan-era geographer Strabo's work Geographica VII. 3. 2 and 3. 13, is disputed ; opponents argue that Thracian was a distinct language from Dacian, either related or unrelated.

According to the geographer Strabo's reports in the 1st century, today's location of the city of Čakovec was the site of Aquama ( wet town ) in Roman times and at the time a marshland, a military post and a legionnaire camp.

Strabo's mention of the Battle of Teutoburg Forest places his knowledge in the final years of Augustus ' reign and after, which is the early first century.

I. E. S. Edwards discusses Strabo's mention that the pyramid " a little way up one side has a stone that may be taken out, which being raised up there is a sloping passage to the foundations.

Strabo's Sicilian contemporary, Diodorus Siculus, conflated Sabazios with the secret ' second ' Dionysus, born of Zeus and Persephone, a connection that is not borne out by surviving inscriptions, which are entirely to Zeus Sabazios.

However, there is insufficient evidence about either Dacian or the Mysian language, both of which are virtually undocumented, to verify Strabo's claim.

The road runs on an embankment, the construction of which was traditionally attributed to Heracles in Strabo's time.

5 ) mentions a " marsh called Lugeum " ( helos Lougeon kaloumenon ) which has been identified with Lake Cerknica, Lougeon being Strabo's Greek rendition of a local toponym, perhaps of Illyrian origin.

Ptolemy has a list of eleven places in his Cataonia, including Cabassus, an unknown site, and Heraclea Cybistra, which is far beyond the limits of Strabo's Cataonia.

It followed in the tradition of earlier geographies, such as Strabo's Geographica, Pomponius Mela's De situ orbis, Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia, and the Antonine Itinerary.

Though some of the masonry in the ruins is certainly pre-Roman, the Suda's identification of it with Cyinda, famous as a treasure city in the wars of Eumenes of Cardia, cannot be accepted in the face of Strabo's express location of Cyinda in western Cilicia.

The account in Germania is inconsistent with Strabo's and Pliny's on a major point.

The geologists compared the present geology with the landscapes and coastal features described in the Iliad and other classical sources, notably Strabo's Geographia.

The Sabir ( sbr / Σάβιροι / Savirs ) people inhabited the south-western Caspian Depression of Strabo's Sauromatae ( not to be confused with the Sarmatians ) prior to the arrival of the Caucasian Avars from Abarshahr ( Khurasan ).

But Strabo's view is controversial among modern linguists: dava placenames are absent south of the Balkan mountains, with one exception ( see Dacian language # Relationship with ancient languages | Thracian, below )

The mountain range has been traditionally identified with Γαβρήτα Ὕλη ( Gabreta Forest ), mentioned in Strabo's Geographica and Ptolemy's Geographia.

But in Strabo's time it seems to have fallen into the same state of decay with the other cities on the south coast of Sicily, as he does not mention it among the few exceptions.

Nonetheless, Strabo's accuracy has been called into question, as he was not actually well acquainted with Gaul and was likely relying on earlier sources whose accuracy is also disputed.