Polyaenus and Strabo write how the Thracians broke their pacts of truce with trickery.

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.

The general views of the De situ orbis mainly agree with those current among Greek writers from Eratosthenes to Strabo ; the latter was probably unknown to Mela.

Walafridus Strabo, who died Abbot of Reichenau in 849, and must therefore have been nearly, if not quite, contemporary with this incident, says nothing about it, but ( De Rebus Ecclesiasticis, xxii ), speaking of various forms of the Mass, says: " Ambrosius quoque Mediolanensis episcopus tam missæ quam cæterorum dispositionem officiorum suæ ecclesiæ et aliis Liguribus ordinavit, quæ et usque hodie in Mediolanensi tenentur ecclesia " ( Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, also arranged a ceremonial for the Mass and other offices for his own church and for other parts of Liguria, which is still observed in the Milanese Church ).

The term is taken up by Aristotle ( De caelo 308a. 20 ), Strabo, Plutarch and Diogenes Laertius, and was adopted into Latin as antipodes.

The crater Strabo intrudes into the northern part of De La Rue's northern rim, and the smaller Thales is attached to the northwestern part of the wall.

Cicero published a dialogue called De Oratore, in which Strabo explains why humor is important in speech.

" De Beer confirms the location from Strabo: the Cassiterides are ten islands in the sea, north of the land of the Artabrians in the northwest corner of Hispania.

In contrast to Strabo, he knows that the Goths live around the Vistula, but these are definitely Germans.

* Theodoric Strabo signs a peace treaty with Leo I and according to the terms the Goths are paid with an annual tribute of 2, 000 pounds of gold.

* The Goths, led by Theodoric Strabo, revolt in Thrace after the assassination of Aspar.

Theodoric would have attacked Basiliscus and his Thracian Goth foederati led by Theodoric Strabo, receiving, in exchange, the title of magister militum held by Strabo and the payments previously given to the Thracian Goths.

Strabo also mentions British kings who sent embassies to Augustus and Augustus ' own Res Gestae refers to two British kings he received as refugees.

According to the " travels of Hercules " theme, also documented by Diodorus Siculus and Strabo, both Greeks and native Ligurian people asserted that Hercules passed through the area.

At 2500 stadia, approximately 283 miles, or 3. 6 °, north of Celtica, are a people Hipparchus called Celtic, but whom Strabo thinks are the British, a discrepancy he might not have noted if he had known that the British were also Celtic.

Strabo also wrote that Sesostris started to build a canal, and Pliny the Elder wrote:

On the other hand, vates was used in Latin to denote a poet with clairvoyance powers and according to the Ancient Greek writers Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, and Poseidonius, the vates ( ουατεις ) were also one of three classes of Celtic priesthood, the other two being the druids and the bards.

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.

Lodi was a Celtic village ; in Roman times it was called in Latin Laus Pompeia ( probably in honor of the consul Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo ) and was known also because its position allowed many Gauls of Gallia Cisalpina to obtain Roman citizenship.

Other writings by Pausanias, Strabo, and Vitruvius also help us to gather more information about the Mausoleum.

It has already been mentioned that in the time of Strabo it is called the metropolis of Bithynia, an honour which is also assigned to it on some coins, though in later times it was enjoyed by Nicomedia.

The conspirators caused riots in the capital against the Isaurian emperor ; Basiliscus succeeded also in convincing Illus, Trocundes and the Ostrogothic general Theodoric Strabo to join the plot.

Zeno succeeded in bribing Armatus too, promising to confirm his rank of magister militum praesentalis for life and promoting his son ( also called Basiliscus ) to the rank of Caesar ; Armatus ' army did not intercept Zeno's troops marching on Constantinople, and the lack of Theodoric Strabo and his army decided the fate of Basiliscus, who fled with his family in the church of Hagia Sophia.

She was also invoked at the beginning of a lost poem, Rhadine (), that was referred to and briefly quoted by Strabo.

Plutarch mentions a legend that Deucalion and Pyrrha had settled in Dodona, Epirus ; while Strabo asserts that they lived at Cynus, and that her grave is still to be found there, while his may be seen at Athens ; he also mentions a pair of Aegean islands named after the couple.

Strabo also mentions Thermessa as sacred place of Hephaestus ( ἱερὰ Ἡφαίστου ), but it's not clear if it was a third name for the island, or just an adjective.

Strabo also registers stray comments on Myron, especially a large group at Samos ; several surviving heads were identified as copies of Myron's Samian Athena by C. K.

Posidonius ' writings on the Jews were probably the source of Diodorus Siculus ' account of the siege and possibly also for Strabo.

The Carolingian Renaissance in retrospect also has some of the character of a false dawn, in that its cultural gains were largely dissipated within a couple of generations, a perception voiced by Walahfrid Strabo ( died 849 ), in his introduction to Einhard's Life of Charlemagne, summing up the generation of renewal:

Strabo also portrays the peoples of the region as being nomadic, or Hamaksoikoi, " wagon-dwellers " and Galaktophagoi, " milk-eaters " referring, no doubt, to the universal koumiss eaten in historical times.

Basiliscus had in fact raised his own nephew Armatus, who was rumoured to be also the lover of Basiliscus ' wife, to the rank of magister militum, the same that Strabo held.

" Mimnermus apparently was also capable of playing all by himself — Strabo described him as " both a pipe-player and an elegiac poet ".

The claim in Suda's second entry that Tyrtaeus was a Spartan general is made also by Athenaeus and Strabo.

Strabo also suggests that these Greek conquests went as far as the capital Pataliputra in northeastern India ( today Patna ):

Strabo also reports in Geography, 8. 7. 3 that the Achaean League was gradually dissolved under the Roman possession of the whole of Macedonia, owing to them not dealing with the several states in the same way, but wishing to preserve some and to destroy others.

He defines the western coast-line of Spain and Gaul and its indentation by the Bay of Biscay more accurately than Eratosthenes or Strabo, his ideas of the British Isles and their position are also clearer than his predecessors.

The " Phrygian rites " Strabo mentioned referred to the cult of Cybele that was also welcomed to Athens in the 5th century.

The language survived as a domestic language in the Iberian peninsula ( modern Spain and Portugal ) as late as the 8th century, and Frankish author Walafrid Strabo wrote that it was still spoken in the lower Danube area and in isolated mountain regions in Crimea in the early 9th century ( see Crimean Gothic ).

Strabo, a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher, in his Geography ( c. AD 24 ), wrote in detail about Moses, whom he considered to be an Egyptian who deplored the situation in his homeland, and thereby attracted many followers who respected the deity.

" They were called Maurisi by the Greeks ", wrote Strabo, " and Mauri by the Romans.

In Roman times it is, for example, found in the work of the Greek geographer Strabo who wrote that climate influences the psychological disposition of different races.

In a parenthetical expression, often removed from the main text, he mentions a branch of the Suevi called the Koldouoi, transliterated to Latin Coldui ( Strabo wrote in Greek ).

Strabo wrote that "... the Amazons live close to Gargarei, on the northern foothills of the Caucasus mountains ".

Posidonius wrote a geographic treatise on the lands of the Celts which has since been lost, but which is referred to extensively ( both directly and otherwise ) in the works of Diodorus of Sicily, Strabo, Caesar and Tacitus ' Germania.

Strabo wrote of the Caucasian Albanians in the 1st century BC:

Strabo wrote that Burebista was able to obtain the complete obedience of his tribe with the help of Decaeneus, a wizard and a diviner who learnt his craft in Egypt.

The Romanized Greek Strabo wrote that the Nervii were of Germanic origin.

The Megali Idea implied the goal of reviving the Byzantine Empire by establishing a Greek state, which would be, as ancient geographer Strabo wrote, a Greek world encompassing mostly the former Byzantine lands from the Ionian Sea to the west, to Asia Minor and the Black Sea to the east, and from Thrace, Macedonia and Epirus to the north, to Crete and Cyprus to the south.

Strabo wrote that they were so intermingled that they were often confounded with each other.

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

When Polybius wrote of the account which was used by Strabo 7. 327, there were near the Mt Candavia sector of the Via Egnatia ' the lakes near Lychnidus with their own self-supporting factories for pickling fish '.

He wrote also Topography of Troy and its Vicinity ( 1804 ); Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca ( 1807 ); Itinerary of Greece, with a Commentary on Pausanias and Strabo ( 1810 ); and Itinerary of the Morea ( 1816 ).

Strabo wrote that Phlegrae was also called the Phlegraean Plain in Campania near Cumae.

Strabo the geographer, who wrote a generation after Caesar, indicated Bibracte as an Aedui stronghold again.

Strabo called the mountain Argaeus ( Ἀργαῖος ); he wrote that the summit was never free from snow and that those few who ascended it reported seeing both the Black Sea to the north and the Mediterranean Sea to the south in days with a clear sky.

Other writers, such as Strabo, a prominent Roman-era geographer ( although he wrote in Greek ), referred to the region as Coele-Syria around 10 – 20 CE.

Strabo wrote about Tusculum in Geography, V 3 § 12 .:

Caesar Strabo Vopiscus wrote at least 3 tragedies with Greek themes.

* there was a bridge before 334 BC because, as per Strabo, on the one side Ephorus wrote that the strait is so narrow that it was spanned by a bridge only two plethra long ( IX. 2. 2 ), and on the other side the people of Chalkis built towers, doors and high walls at the bridgehead the year Alexander the Great passed over to Asia ( X. 1. 8 ).