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 ').

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.

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.

According to the descriptions of Strabo, Dio Cassius and other Graeco-Roman geographers, the lands of Asturias were inhabited in the beginning of the Christian era by several peoples, amongst whom the more important were: From the Cantabrians, the Vadinienses, who inhabited the Picos de Europa region and whose settlement gradually expanded southward during the first centuries of the modern era ; the Orgenomesci, who dwelled along the Asturian eastern coast ; and from the Astures, the Saelini, whose settlement extended through the Sella valley ; the Luggones, who had their capital in Lucus Asturum and whose territories stretched between the rivers Sella and Nalón ; the Astures ( in the strictest sense ), who dwelled in inner Asturias, between the current councils of Piloña and Cangas del Narcea ; and the Paesici, who had settled along the coast of Western Asturias, between the mouth of the Navia river and the modern city of Gijón.

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

Noteworthy in the Roman period were Strabo, a writer on geography ; Plutarch, the father of biography, whose Parallel Lives of famous Greeks and Romans is a chief source of information about great figures of antiquity ; Pausanias, a travel writer ; and Lucian, a satirist.

The Teutons or Teutones were mentioned as a Germanic tribe by Greek and Roman authors, notably Strabo and Marcus Velleius Paterculus, and normally in close connection with the Cimbri, whose ethnicity is contested between Gauls and Germani.

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.

Strabo married a Roman woman whose name is unknown.

Unlike medieval geographers, whose focus was regional, Biondo, taking Strabo for his model, reinstated the idea of Italy to include the whole of the peninsula.

Strabo wrote that " Altinum too is in a marsh, for the portion it occupies is similar to that of Ravenna ", a waterlogged city whose canals were flushed by the tides: " These cities, then, are for the most part surrounded by the marshes, and hence subject to inundations.

* Strabo, Geography

In his work, " Geography ", the classical geographer Strabo suggests a change had occurred in the use of the name " Lusitanian ".

Strabo, a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher, in his Geography ( c. AD 24 ), wrote in detail about Moses, whom he considered to be an Egyptian who deplored the situation in his homeland, and thereby attracted many followers who respected the deity.

Several works among the best known during this long period could be cited as an example, from Strabo ( Geography ), Eratosthenes ( Geography ) or Dionisio Periegetes ( Periegesis Oiceumene ) in the Ancient Age to the Alexander von Humboldt ( Cosmos ) in the century XIX, in which geography is regarded as a physical and natural science, of course, through the work Summa de Geografía of Martín Fernández de Enciso from the early sixteenth century, which is indicated for the first time the New World.

* Greek geographer Strabo publishes Geography, a work covering the world known to the Romans and Greeks at the time of Emperor Augustus – it is the only such book to survive from the ancient world.

The 5th century BC Athenian historian Thucydides describes them as " barbarians " in his History of the Peloponnesian War, as does Strabo in his Geography.

* The Greek geographer Strabo of Amaseia, in Geography 16. 1 –. 6, writes: " In Babylon a settlement is set apart for the local philosophers, the Chaldaeans, as they are called, who are concerned mostly with astronomy ; but some of these, who are not approved of by the others, profess to be writers of horoscopes.

* The Greek geographer Strabo of Amaseia, in Geography 16. 1 –. 6, writes: " In Babylon a settlement is set apart for the local philosophers, the Chaldaeans, as they are called, who are concerned mostly with astronomy ; but some of these, who are not approved of by the others, profess to be writers of horoscopes.

The Geography ( XXIII, 11 ) of Strabo ( 64 / 63 BC – ca.

Strabo in his Geography, Book VII 3, 12, tells about the Daci-Getae division " Getae, those who incline towards the Pontus and the east, and Daci, those who incline in the opposite direction towards Germany and the sources of the Ister ".

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## Strabo ( first century BC ) Geography I, 2, 39 ( Jones, H. L.

) ( 1969 ) The Geography of Strabo ( in eight volumes ) London

There may be an earlier reference to the Quadi in the Geography of Strabo ( 7. 1. 3 ).

Strabo, in his Geography, writes:

* Strabo, Geography, translated by Horace Leonard Jones ; Vol.

Strabo dedicates a section of his Geography to the Pelasgians, relating both his own opinions and those of prior writers.

Strabo in his Geography, book 7, 3, 1-11 talks about a certain Deceneus ( Dékainéos ) which calls γόητα, " magician ".

The Ems was known to several ancient authors: Pliny the Elder in Natural History ( 4. 14 ), Tacitus in the Annals ( Book 1 ), Pomponius Mela ( 3. 3 ), Strabo and Ptolemy, Geography ( 2. 10 ).

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.

The earliest written accounts of forest destruction in Southern Europe begin around 1000 BC in the histories of Homer, Thucydides and Plato and in Strabo ’ s Geography.

" -- Strabo Geography ( 1st Century CE ), 10. 3. 18.

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.

Jacob Hoschander has argued that evidence of the historicity of Haman and his father Hamedatha is seen in Omanus and Anadatus mentioned by Strabo as being honoured with Anahita in the city of Zela.

), and with the same meaning it is used by the classical writers ( for example, by Strabo ).

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

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.

The constitution of the Galatian state is described by Strabo and bare striking resemblance to later Germanic kingdoms and early feudalism during the Dark Ages.

" Strabo ’ s " positive and unequivocal appreciation of Moses ’ personality is among the most sympathetic in all ancient literature.

" Besides its mention of Cicero, Moses is the only non-Greek writer quoted in the work, and he is described " with far more admiration than even Greek writers who treated Moses with respect, such as Hecataeus and Strabo.

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.

The early part of Pytheas ' voyage is outlined by statements of Eratosthenes that Strabo says are false because taken from Pytheas.

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

For " Britain " Pytheas through Strabo uses Bretannikē as a feminine noun, although its form is that of an adjective: " the Britannic.

And yet Strabo says: Pytheas of Massalia tells us that Thule ... is farthest north, and that there the circle of the summer tropic is the same as the Arcti c Circle.

Strabo says that Pytheas gave an account of " what is beyond the Rhine as far as Scythia ", which he, Strabo, thinks is false.

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.

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 says that Ierne ( Ireland ) is under 5000 stadia ( 7. 1 °) north of this line.