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Strabo and Pliny both notice it among the inland towns of Campania ; and though we learn from the Liber de Coloniis, that Vespasian settled a number of his freedmen and dependants there, yet it appears, both from that treatise and from Pliny, that it had not then attained the rank of a colony, a dignity which we find it enjoying in the time of Trajan.
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Two important geographers, Strabo and Pliny, are silent concerning the Angles.
" However, both Strabo and Pliny describe that shore.
The accounts of historians Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, and Strabo suggest that boats were being used for commerce and traveling.
Strabo also wrote that Sesostris started to build a canal, and Pliny the Elder wrote:
Strabo of Amaseia called him Kidenas, Pliny the Elder Cidenas, and Vettius Valens Kidynas.
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.
Strabo speaks of it as one of the places on the north coast of Sicily which, in his time, still deserved the name of cities ; and Pliny gives it the title of a Colonia.
It is certain therefore that Thurii was at this time still a place of some importance, and it is mentioned as a still existing town by Pliny and Ptolemy, as well as Strabo.
Material from this book is quoted directly or indirectly by Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Aelian ( Claudius Aelianus ) and other authors.
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 ).
The geographic accounts of Pliny the Elder and of Strabo mention the Fortunate Isles but do not report anything about their populations.
Indeed, Strabo and Pliny relate that the oracle of Apollo had told the Athenians and Megarians who founded Byzantium to build their city opposite to the blind, and that the story was interpreted to mean Chalcedon, the ' City of the Blind '.
Mentioned as Burchana fabaria ( island of beans ) by both Strabo and Pliny the elder, Borkum by the time of Charlemagne the island was part of a larger island called Bant, which consisted of the present day islands of Borkum, Juist and the western part of Norderney.
The section along the river Phasis was a vital component of the presumed trade route from India to the Black Sea, attested by Strabo and Pliny.
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.
Later writers such as Arrian, Strabo, Diodorus, and Pliny refer to Indica in their works.
Of these writers, Arrian speaks most highly of Megasthenes, while Strabo and Pliny treat him with less respect.
According to historians, as a result of the linguistic unity of the Getae and Dacians that result from the record of ancient writers Strabo, Cassius Dio, Trogus Pompeius, Appian and Pliny the Elder, contemporary historiography often uses the term Geto-Dacians to refer to the people living in the area between the Carpathians, the Haemus ( Balkan ) Mountains and the Black Sea.
Statements by ancient authors such as Caesar, Strabo and Pliny the Elder have been controversially interpreted as supporting this view, but these are too vague or ambiguous to be of much geographical value.
To the north was Sarmatian territory, and to the south lay the part of Colchis inhabited by the Svans ( Soanes of Strabo and Pliny the Elder ).
The island is also mentioned by Virgil, Pliny the Elder and Strabo.
Pliny suggests the dog as having taken its name from the Adriatic island Méléda ; however, Strabo, in the early first century AD, identifies the breed as originating from the Mediterranean island of Malta, and writes that they were favored by noble women.
While ancient Greek historians, including Herodotus, Strabo, and Pliny the Elder, referred to Legoi people who inhabited Caucasian Albania, Arab historians of 9-10th centuries mention the kingdom of Lakz in present-day southern Dagestan.
While Pliny may have been the primary source, scholars have identified others ; among them are Caesar's Gallic Wars, Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, Posidonius, Aufidius Bassus, and numerous non-literary sources: presumably based on interviews with traders and soldiers who had ventured beyond the Rhine and Danube borders, and Germanic mercenaries in Rome.
Strabo and Mela both mention it as if it were the second city in Sardinia ; and its municipal rank is attested by inscriptions, as well as by Pliny.
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Strabo states that the Lombards dwelt on both sides of the Elbe.
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.
A statement of Eratosthenes attributed by Strabo to Pytheas, that the north of the Iberian Peninsula was an easier passage to Celtica than across the Ocean, is somewhat ambiguous: apparently he knew or knew of both routes, but he does not say which he took.
Livy says merely that the colony was sent in Thurinum agrum, and does not mention anything of a change of name ; but Strabo tells us that they gave to the new colony the name of Copiae, and this statement is confirmed both by Stephanus of Byzantium, and by the evidence of coins, on which, however, the name is written " COPIA ".
It is clear, from the statements both of Diodorus and Strabo, that Thurii occupied a site near to, but distinct from, that of Sybaris ( Diod.
This is fairly probable, because it lies in the neighbourhood of a fault line, and both Thucydides and Strabo write that the northern part of the island had been shaken at different periods.
Strabo dedicates a section of his Geography to the Pelasgians, relating both his own opinions and those of prior writers.
Strabo and Arrian both record that Side was founded by Greek settlers from Cyme in Aeolis, a region of western Anatolia.
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.
This sacred part of the temple would be the only part that has survived, and would confirm the words of Strabo and Diodorus, both of whom stated that the temple was located near the temple of Ptah.
Thebes ' exact placement was unknown in medieval Europe, though both Herodotus and Strabo give the exact location of Thebes and how long up the Nile one must travel to reach it.
" Mimnermus apparently was also capable of playing all by himself — Strabo described him as " both a pipe-player and an elegiac poet ".
Strabo speaks of it as one of the cities on the east coast of Sicily that was still subsisting in his time, though inferior in population both to Messana and Catana.
He outshone both Marius and the consul Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo ( the father of Pompey ).
Another plant, asafoetida, was used as a cheaper substitute for silphium, and had similar enough qualities that Romans, including the geographer Strabo, used the same word to describe both.
The word " diagonal " derives from the ancient Greek διαγώνιος diagonios, " from angle to angle " ( from διά-dia -, " through ", " across " and γωνία gonia, " angle ", related to gony " knee "); it was used by both Strabo and Euclid to refer to a line connecting two vertices of a rhombus or cuboid, and later adopted into Latin as diagonus (" slanting line ").
Strabo had the habit of playing both ends against the middle in the intense politics of the period.
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.
It is much more strange that we find the name of Himera reappear both in Mela and Pliny, though we know from the distinct statements of Cicero and Strabo, as well as Diodorus, that it had ceased to exist centuries before.
Strabo located the Sicambri next to the Menapii, “ who dwell on both sides of the river Rhine near its mouth, in marshes and woods.
Mention of the island of Spetses was made both by Strabo in the 1st century BC and Pausanias in the 2nd century AD, referring to the island as Pitiousa.
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.
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