There is some little difference in authors as to the extent of the country westward: thus Strabo makes Colchis begin at Trabzon, while Ptolemy, on the other hand, extends Pontus to the Rioni River.

Strabo ( 5. 2. 2 ) makes Atys father of Lydus, and Tyrrhenus to be one of the descendants of Heracles and Omphale.

According to Strabo, Smyrna was named after an Amazon and, according to a manuscript on proverbs, Mimnermus once composed on the theme of the proverb " A lame man makes the best lover ", illustrating the Amazonian practice of maiming their men.

:" Megasthenes makes a different division of the philosophers, saying that they are of two kinds, one of which he calls the Brachmanes, and the other the Sarmanes ..." Strabo XV.

Strabo makes no mention of equestrian activities taking place in the Circus Flaminius.

The Geography of Strabo, dated to the early empire, mentions the defeat of Varus at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest but makes no mention of the Vangiones.

In Ezekiak xxvii 14 Togarmah appears trading with Tyre for horses and mules ; so Strabo ( xi 13, 9 ) makes Armenians famous for breeding horses.

According to Strabo, he was born in Naryx in Locris, where Ovid calls him Narycius Heroes.

According to Strabo their territory was divided in accordance with custom, each tribe was further divided into cantons, each governed by a military aristocratic ruler whose title chief of the tribe gave him the powers of a King-Priest (' tetrarch ').

Strabo and Diodorus Siculus ) never saw Pytheas ' work, says Nansen, but they and others read of him in Timaeus.

In discussing the work of Pytheas, Strabo typically uses direct discourse: " Pytheas says ..." In presenting his astronomical observations, he changes to indirect discourse: " Hipparchus says that Pytheas says ..." either because he never read Pytheas ' manuscript ( because it was not available to him ) or in deference to Hipparchus, who appears to have been the first to apply the Babylonian system of representing the sphere of the earth by 360 °.

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.

His tombstone described him as the Ezra and the Strabo of the Germans.

Strabo of Amaseia called him Kidenas, Pliny the Elder Cidenas, and Vettius Valens Kidynas.

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.

Secondly, from his own experiences, he provided Strabo with information of regions of the empire that would never have told him otherwise.

Strabo proposes a very ingenious interpretation of the legends about Achelous, all of which according to him arose from the nature of the river itself.

13 ) lists Praxiteles as an artist on the Mausoleum of Maussollos and Strabo ( xiv, 23, 51 ) attributes to him the whole sculpted decoration of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus.

Calchas died of shame at Colophon in Asia Minor shortly after the Trojan War ( told in the Cyclic Nostoi and Melampodia ): the prophet Mopsus beat him in a contest of soothsaying, although Strabo placed an oracle of Calchas on Monte Gargano in Magna Graecia.

Strabo calls him Elymnus, and says that he went to Sicily with Aeneas, and that they together took possession of the cities of Eryx and Lilybaeum.

Strabo and several inscriptions refer to him as Zeus Trephonios.

Also, Theodoric Strabo, whose hatred of the Isaurian Zeno had compelled him to support Basiliscus ' revolt, left the new Emperor's side.

Arsaces, the chieftain of the nomadic ( Dahae ) tribe of the Parni, fled before him into Parthia and there defeated and killed Andragoras, the former satrap and self-proclaimed king of Parthia, and became the founder of the Parthian Empire ( Strabo l. c .).

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

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 ):

Strabo and Stephanus call him the " earnest-jester " (, spoudogeloios ).

Of these writers, Arrian speaks most highly of Megasthenes, while Strabo and Pliny treat him with less respect.

Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo ( died 87 BC ), whose cognomen means " cross eyed ", is often referred to in English as Pompey Strabo to distinguish him from Strabo, the geographer.

It probably was a Thracian town, as Strabo has it, but was afterwards colonized by Milesians, with the consent of Gyges, king of Lydia, around 700 BC.

The 4th century BC writer Theopompus, quoted by Strabo, describes how heating earth from Andeira in Turkey produced " droplets of false silver ", probably metallic zinc, which could be used to turn copper into oreichalkos.

Strabo went on to list the names of the various tribes among the Scythians, probably making an amalgam with some of the tribes of eastern Central Asia ( such as the Tocharians ):

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.

The name of the king erecting the Karatepe inscription, Azatiwad, is probably related to the toponym Aspendos, the name of a city in Pamphylia founded by the Argives according to Strabo ( 14. 4. 2 ).

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

He was probably one of the British kings that Strabo says sent embassies to Augustus.

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.

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

The Lugian federation was probably formed long before it was first recorded, in the works of Strabo ( Geographica ).

Gaeta was an ancient Ionian colony of the Samians according to Strabo, who believed the name stemmed from the Greek kaiétas, which means " cave ", probably referring to the several harbours.

He was probably one of the British kings that Strabo says sent embassies to Augustus.

Ptolemy lists the Brigantes also as a tribe in Ireland, where they could be found around Wexford, Kilkenny and Waterford while another probably Celtic tribe named Brigantii is mentioned by Strabo as a sub-tribe of the Vindelici in the region of the Alps.

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

The outbreak of the Social War saw Metellus Pius employed as a legate in late 89 BC, probably of the consul Pompeius Strabo, where he won some battles against the Marsi.

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.