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.

Strabo mentions that a Roman colony was created at the location in the reign of Augustus, named Colonia Alexandria Augusta Troas ( called simply Troas during this period ).

Pliny the Elder indeed, mentions its name ( Selinus oppidum ), as if it still existed as a town in his time, but Strabo distinctly classes it with extinct cities.

However, the first mention of the Tókharoi appear much earlier, in the 1st century BC, when Strabo mentions that " the Tókharoi, together with the Assianis, Passianis and Sakaraulis, took part in the destruction of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom " in the second half of the 2nd century BC.

Livy mentions a portus Tarraconis ; and according to Eratosthenes it had a naval station or roads (); but Artemidorus says with more probability that it had none, and scarcely even an anchoring place ; and Strabo himself calls it.

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 mentions a temple dedicated to Artemis at this site.

Strabo mentions the Sarmatians in a number of places, never saying very much about them.

Strabo mentions that around his time ( 1st century BC ), the Lydian language had become extinct in Lydia proper, but was still being spoken among the multicultural population of Kibyra ( present-day Gölhisar ) in south-west Anatolia by the descendants of the Lydian colonists who had founded the city.

Strabo also mentions the expeditions against a group of Celts who lived among the Thracians and Illyrians ( probably the Scordisci ).

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.

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.

Strabo locates the deadly spring below the slopes of Mount Telphosion, near Haliartos and Alalkomenai ; he mentions the sanctuary of Tiresias and the temple of Telphousian Apollo, unique to this site.

Ovid, who was banished to Tomis, mentions the island ; so do Ptolemy and Strabo.

Strabo says that Artemidorus mentions three islands protecting places of anchorage at the point.

Strabo mentions the village Brigantium, and on a road to Alpis Cottia, but his words are obscure.

Strabo mentions Tanais in his Geography ( 11. 2. 2 ).

The geographer Strabo mentions this temple, the third greatest temple after those in Didyma and Ephesus, but considered finest of all for its proportions.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the discoverer of Antioch wondered about the sanctuary that Strabo mentions in his Geography, and Ramsay's team found a sacred prosessional road with votive steles on either side leading up to the sanctuary.

In addition to these dozen sentences, the geographer Strabo mentions India a few times in the course of his long dispute with Eratosthenes about the shape of Eurasia.

Strabo mentions the waters (); and they are again noticed in the Itineraries under the name of Aquae Labodes or Labrodes.

Strabo is the earliest writer who mentions either the nome, or its chief town: and it was probably of comparatively recent origin or importance.