The classicist Roger Bagnall estimated that there was one bureaucrat for every 5 – 10, 000 people in Egypt based on 400 or 800 bureaucrats for 4 million inhabitants ( no one knows the population of the province in 300 AD ; Strabo 300 years earlier put it at 7. 5 million, excluding Alexandria ).

* Labyrinth of Egypt Archaeological site reconstruction and 3D diagrams based on the writings of Herodotus and Strabo.

Strabo uses the degrees, based on Hipparchus.

Strabo gives it as 24 °, which may be based on a previous tangent of Pytheas, but he does not say.

In maps based on reference points and descriptions given by Strabo, Hyperborea, shown variously as a peninsula or island, is located beyond what is now France, and stretches further north-south than east-west.

It is possible that Strabo made a false identification based solely on the similarity between the two tribal names, which may have been coincidental.

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.

Both Strabo and Arrian give nearly equal descriptions of the tomb, based on the eyewitness report of Aristobulus of Cassandreia, who at the request of Alexander the Great visited the tomb two times.

In this period, according Strabo inscriptions related to Damastion coins mint, and particularly based on preserved Onomastical trails from latter, it is visible that Polog valley was inhabited by Bryges ( lat.

The traditional assumption, ignoring Strabo, is that Cassiterides refer to Great Britain, based on the significant tin deposits in Cornwall.

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.

According to Strabo, writing two centuries after the events, rather than being destroyed by the Romans like their Celtic neighbours, " the Boii were merely driven out of the regions they occupied ; and after migrating to the regions round about the Ister, lived with the Taurisci, and carried on war against the Daci until they perished, tribe and all — and thus they left their country, which was a part of Illyria, to their neighbours as a pasture-ground for sheep.

There is reference on a Greek papyrus from 163 BCE to the procedure being conducted on girls in Memphis, the ancient Egyptian capital, and Strabo ( c. 64 BCE – c. 23 CE ), the Greek geographer, reported it when he visited Egypt in 25 BCE.

Strabo, writing late in Augustus's reign, claims that taxes on trade brought in more annual revenue than any conquest could.

Strabo states that the Lombards dwelt on both sides of the Elbe.

The last link is supplied by Strabo, who says that an emporium on the island of Corbulo in the mouth of the Loire was associated with the Britain of Pytheas by Polybius.

Strabo wants to discredit Pytheas on the grounds that 40000 stadia is outrageously high and cannot be real.

Hipparchus, relying on the authority of Pytheas ( says Strabo ), states that the ratio is the same as for Byzantium and that the two therefore are on the same parallel.

Hipparchus, through Strabo, adds that Byzantium and the mouth of the Borysthenes, today's Dnepr river, were on the same meridian and were separated by 3700 stadia, 5. 3 ° at Strabo's 700 stadia per a degree of meridian arc.

Hipparchus, relying on Pytheas, according to Strabo, places this area south of Britain, but he, Strabo, calculates that it is north of Ierne.

In the hindsight given to moderns Pytheas, in relying on observation in the field, appears more scientific than Strabo, who discounted the findings of others merely because of their to him strangeness.

Still, some of the Celtic lands were on the channel and were visible from it, which Pytheas should have mentioned but Strabo implies he did not.

In fact, observations made by Polybius, in conjunction with passages from Strabo and Scylax, allowed the discovery of the location of the lost city of Kydonia on Crete.

According to Strabo ( 1. 1. 9 ), Seleucus was the first to state that the tides are due to the attraction of the Moon, and that the height of the tides depends on the Moon's position relative to the Sun.

* Strabo publishes his book on the shape of the Earth.

The major source of materials on the Celts of Gaul was Poseidonios of Apamea, whose writings were quoted by Timagenes, Julius Caesar, the Sicilian Greek Diodorus Siculus, and the Greek geographer Strabo.

Observations on tides were recorded by Aristotle and Strabo.

< p > But Strabo rejects this theory as insufficient to account for all the phenomena, and he proposes one of his own, the profoundness of which modern geologists are only beginning to appreciate.

The theory that Tauromenion was founded by colonists from Naxos is confirmed by Strabo and other ancient writers.

In another theory, Cleopatra is likely to have been a daughter of Ptolemy X Alexander I, as Cleopatra Thea VII ( Cleopatra VII ) reveals to be a granddaughter of this and as Strabo confirms her to be the mother of Cleopatra VII's sister Berenice.

Strabo accepted the narrow band of habitation theory, and rejected the accounts of Hanno and Pytheas as fables.

Strabo described the city as having " fancy tools made out of gold and silver, such as the family gold, right triangles, and their drinking glass, let alone their large homes which have their doors, walls, roofs filled with colors, gold, silver, and holy stones "

The Volcae Arecomici ( Οὐόλκαι Ἀρικόμιοι of Ptolemy's Geography ii ), according to Strabo, dwelt on the western side of the lower Rhone, with their metropolis at Narbo ( Narbonne ): " Narbo is spoken of as the naval-station of these people alone, though it would be fairer to add " and of the rest of Celtica ", so greatly has it surpassed the others in the number of people who use it as a trade-centre.

Nansen and others prefer to give the cotangent 209 / 600, which is the inverse of the tangent, but the angle is greater than 45 ° and it is the tangent that Strabo states.

Strabo states degrees in either cubits or as a proportion of a great circle.

The geographer Strabo, quoting earlier sources, states that the wealth of Tantalus was derived from the mines of Phrygia and Mount Sipylus.

Strabo distinctly states they were not of Celtic origin and a different race from the Gauls.

Strabo writing during the Roman period, states that the temple had formerly, during the Greek period, hosted more than a thousand sacred slave-prostitutes ( VIII, 6, 20 ).

Strabo states that in 166 BC the Romans converted Delos into a free port, which was partially motivated by seeking to damage the trade of Rhodes, at the time the target of Roman hostility.

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.

Strabo however states that Ptolemy had three daughters of whom only the eldest ( Berenice ) was legitimate.

Strabo, however, states that Ptolemy had three daughters, of whom only the eldest ( Berenice ) was legitimate.

Dioscorides, in Materia Medica, describes lumps of bitumen in the adjacent river Seman, and the concentrated pitch on the banks of the Vjosë river Strabo, writing in about AD 17 states:

) Hence it has been supposed that the ancient Boura stood upon the coast, and after its destruction was rebuilt inland ; but neither Pausanias nor Strabo states that the ancient city was on the coast, and their words render it improbable.

Kalopoulos also points out that chemical reactions of this nature were well known in ancient times, quoting Strabo, who states " In Babylon there are two kinds of naphtha springs, a white and a black.

The geographer Strabo states that in the 1st century BCE, there were many small kingdoms under Roman domination.

Strabo states that the water was hard, though drinkable.

Strabo states that in his day it went as far as Corfinium, and this important place must have been in some way accessible from Rome, but probably, beyond Cerfennia, only by a track.