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 ).

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

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 ).

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 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.

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

Strabo makes him the ( probably legendary ) inventor of the anchor with two flukes, and others made him the inventor of the potter's wheel.

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.