Strabo notes Xanthos as the largest city in Lycia.

Strabo notes that " a little above the sea " in Chalcedonia, there lies " the fountain Azaritia, which contains small crocodiles.

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 final mention of Morgantina comes again from Strabo, who notes that in his own time, the first century CE, the city had ceased to exist.

Strabo notes that insulae, like domus, had running water and sanitation.

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, 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.

As far as Nemi's Diana is concerned there are two different versions, by Strabo and Servius Honoratus.

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

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.

On the other hand, vates was used in Latin to denote a poet with clairvoyance powers and according to the Ancient Greek writers Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, and Poseidonius, the vates ( ουατεις ) were also one of three classes of Celtic priesthood, the other two being the druids and the bards.

Strabo cites two other accounts, in which Melanippe was said to have been handed over either to Metabus or to Dius.

Erythrae was the birthplace of two prophetesses ( sibyls ) -- one of whom, Sibylla, is mentioned by Strabo as living in the early period of the city ; the other, Athenais, lived in the time of Alexander the Great.

With Apicata, he had three children, two sons and one daughter: Strabo, Capito Aelianus and Junilla.

He is one of the few Bactrian kings mentioned by Greek authors, among them Apollodorus of Artemita, quoted by Strabo, who claims that the Greeks from Bactria were even greater conquerors than Alexander the Great, and that Menander was one of the two Bactrian kings, with Demetrius, who extended their power farthest into India:

Strabo says that " in ancient times in Capri there were two towns, later reduced to one.

The fragmentary oldest Life was recast in the 9th century by two monks of Reichenau, enlarged in 816 – 824 by the celebrated Wettinus, and about 833 – 884 by Walafrid Strabo, who also revised a book of the miracles of the saint.

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 ").

According to Strabo ( VII. 3. 2 ) and Herodotus, the people of Bithynia in northwest Anatolia originated from two Thracian tribes, the Bithyni and Thyni, which migrated from their original home around the river Strymon in Thrace.

In addition, Strabo ( VII. 3. 2 ) equates the Moesi people of the Danubian basin with the Mysi ( Mysians ), neighbours of the Phrygians in NW Anatolia, stating that the two forms were Greek and Latin variants of the same name.

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

:" 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.

According to Strabo, they were divided into two sub-groups, the Galabri and the Thunaki.

Returning to Fulda two years later, he was entrusted with the principal charge of the school, which under his direction became one of the most preeminent centers of scholarship and book production in Europe, and sent forth such pupils as Walafrid Strabo, Servatus Lupus of Ferrières, and Otfrid of Weissenburg.

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 the west the Parthian king Mithradates I began to enlarge his kingdom and attacked Eucratides ; the city of Herat fell in 167 BCE and the Parthians succeeded in conquering two provinces between Bactria and Parthia, called by Strabo the country of Aspiones and Turiua.

In his opinion, Alexandru Vulpe saw ancient people as modern nations, leading the latter to interpret the common language as a sign of a common people, despite Strabo making a distinction between the two.

Strabo locates the Moschoi in two places.

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.

A lost passage of Pindar quoted by Strabo was the earliest traceable reference in this context: " the pillars which Pindar calls the ' gates of Gades ' when he asserts that they are the farthermost limits reached by Heracles.

But Strabo believes the account to be fraudulent, in part noting that the inscriptions on those pillars mentioned nothing about Heracles, speaking only of the expenses incurred by the Phoenicians in their making.

On the presumption that " recently " means within a year, Strabo stopped writing that year or the next ( 24 AD ), when he died.

The Carolingian Renaissance in retrospect also has some of the character of a false dawn, in that its cultural gains were largely dissipated within a couple of generations, a perception voiced by Walahfrid Strabo ( died 849 ), in his introduction to Einhard's Life of Charlemagne, summing up the generation of renewal:

It is subsequently mentioned by Strabo as a place of some size, and by Pliny as a free city within the Roman Empire, a reward for its support against Mithridates.

According to Strabo and Plutarch, Artashes also founded the Armenian capital Artashat ( Artaxata ) with the aid of the Carthaginian general Hannibal who was being sheltered from the Romans within Artashesians ' court.

In legend, Amarynthus ( a form of Amarantus ) was a hunter of Artemis and king of Euboea ; in a village of Amarynthus, of which he was the eponymous hero, there was a famous temple of Artemis Amarynthia or Amarysia ( Strabo x.

Strabo ( 14. 1. 37 ) records an Homeric temple in Smyrna with an ancient xoanon or cult statue of the poet.

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 ).

Near the eastern shore of the island of Gades / Gadeira ( modern Cádiz, just beyond the strait ) Strabo describes the westernmost temple of Tyrian Heracles, the god with whom Greeks associated the Phoenician and Punic Melqart, by interpretatio graeca.

" It seems that if Zeus were to stand up ," the geographer Strabo noted early in the 1st century BC, " he would unroof the temple.

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.

Strabo mentions a temple dedicated to Artemis at this site.

At the temple of Cybele in Pessinus, the mother of the gods was still called Agdistis, the geographer Strabo recounted.

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.

The geographer Strabo mentions this temple, the third greatest temple after those in Didyma and Ephesus, but considered finest of all for its proportions.

Strabo later noted the temple no longer existed, the town having been transferred to another place.

The new town which Strabo saw was remarkable for its temple of Artemis Leucophryeno, which in size and the number of its treasures was surpassed by the temple of Ephesus, but in beauty and the harmony of its parts was superior to all the temples in Asia Minor.

The decastyle temple of Apollo Didymaeus near Miletus was, according to Strabo ( c. 50 nc.

For example, Strabo ( 12. 5. 3 ) writes that the priests were potentates in " ancient times ", but it is unclear whether Pessinus was already a temple state ruled by " dynastai " in the Phrygian period.

Strabo ascribes its foundation to a body of Pylians, a part of those who had followed Nestor to Troy ; while Justin tells us it was founded by Epeius, the hero who constructed the wooden horse at Troy ; in proof of which the inhabitants showed, in a temple of Minerva, the tools used by him on that occasion.

Strabo speaks of a temple of Zeus Dacius, where there is a salt-lake of considerable extent with steep banks, so that the descent to it is like going down steps ; it was said that the water never increased, and had no visible outlet.

The temple served as a depository for Aristotle, Caesar, Dio Chrysostomus, Plautus, Plutarch, Strabo and Xenophon.

The huge mortuary temple that originally stood adjacent to this pyramid is believed to have formed the basis of the complex of buildings with galleries and courtyards called a " labyrinth " by Herodotus ( see quote at Labyrinth ), and mentioned by Strabo and Diodorus Siculus.