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, by the time of emperor Augustus, up to 120 Roman ships were setting sail every year from Myos Hormos in Roman Egypt to India.

The Scythians were described by Roman writer Strabo as inhabiting the lands to the north of the Black Sea in present-day Ukraine, Moldova and Romania.

At the end of the republic, however, or at latest at the beginning of the imperial period, the city of Circei was no longer at the east end of the promontory, but on the east shores of the Lago di Paola ( a lagoon — now a considerable fishery — separated from the sea by a line of sandhills and connected with it by a channel of Roman date: Strabo speaks of it as a small harbor ) north of the west end of the promontory.

Ghee is mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea as a typical trade article around the first century CE Arabian Sea, and Roman geographer Strabo describes it as a commodity of Arabia and Sudan.

Cyprus became a Roman province in 58 BC, according to Strabo because Publius Clodius Pulcher held a grudge against Ptolemy and sent Marcus Cato to conquer the island after he had become tribune.

Pontus had recently fallen to the Roman Republic, and although politically he was a proponent of Roman imperialism, Strabo belonged on his mother's side to a prominent family whose members had held important positions under the resisting regime of King Mithridates VI of Pontus.

The final noteworthy mentor to Strabo is Athenodorus Cananites, a philosopher who had spent his life since 44 BC in Rome forging relationships with the Roman elite.

The Greco-Roman trade with India started by Eudoxus of Cyzicus in 130 BC kept on increasing, and according to Strabo ( II. 5. 12 ), by the time of Augustus, up to 120 ships were setting sail every year from Myos Hormos in Roman Egypt to India.

* Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Roman general and father of Pompey the Great ( disease )

** The Roman army of Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo decisively defeats the rebels in the Battle of Asculum.

During Roman times, Tergeste was defined an " Illyrian city " by Artemidorus of Ephesus, a Greek geographer, and " Carnic " by Strabo.

Strabo, Gaius Maecenas and Cassius Dio all reiterate the traditional Roman opposition against sorcery and divination, and Tacitus uses the term religio-superstitio to class these outlawed observances.

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 ).

According to the Roman historian Strabo, the river named Aesontius which in Roman times flowed past Aquileia to the Adriatic Sea was essentially the Natisone and Torre river system.

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 Hanging Gardens of Babylon are documented by ancient Greek and Roman writers, including Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus.

In Roman times it is, for example, found in the work of the Greek geographer Strabo who wrote that climate influences the psychological disposition of different races.

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.

The Greek historian Strabo visited the site with the conquering Roman troops, following the victory against Cleopatra at Actium.

* Strabo, Greek geographer, who visited during the Roman conquest in the late 1st century BCE.