But the mines continued to be worked, though Strabo records that in his time the tailings were being worked over, and Pausanias speaks of the mines as a thing of the past.

But the mines continued to be worked, though Strabo records that in his time the tailings were being worked over, and Pausanias speaks of the mines as a thing of the past.

These circumstances explain an apparent contradiction in Strabo, who in one sentence says that the Aedui lived between the Saône and the Doubs, and in the next, that the Sequani lived across the Saône ( eastward ).

In Strabo, the Sarmatians extend from above the Danube eastward to the Volga, and from north of the Dnepr into the Caucasus, where, he says, they are called Caucasii like everyone else there.

Three separate sources were combined to form fr. 350, as mentioned above, including a prose paraphrase from Strabo that first needed to be restored to its original meter, a synthesis achieved by the united efforts of Otto Hoffmann, Karl Otfried Muller and Franz Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens.

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.

Both terms, vasco and basque, are inherited from Latin ethnonym Vascones which in turn goes back to the Greek term οὐασκώνους ( ouaskōnous ), an ethnonym used by Strabo in his Geographica ( 23 CE, Book III ).

Strabo confirms that the Boii emigrated from their lands across the Alps and were one of the largest tribes of the Celts.

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.

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.

Diogenes says that he abdicated the kingship ( basileia ) in favor of his brother and Strabo confirms that there was a ruling family in Ephesus descended from the Ionian founder, Androclus, which still kept the title and could sit in the chief seat at the games, as well as a few other privileges.

Strabo refers to the Carretanians as people " of the Iberian stock " living in the Pyrenees, who are to be distinguished from either Celts or Celtiberians.

According to the accounts of historian Diodorus Siculus and geographer Strabo, the area's first permanent settlers were the mountain-dwelling Ligures, who emigrated from their native city of Genoa, Italy.

In Strabo ’ s writings of the history of Judaism as he understood it, he describes various stages in its development: from the first stage, including Moses and his direct heirs ; to the final stage where " the Temple of Jerusalem continued to be surrounded by an aura of sanctity.

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.

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

Strabo relates, taking his text from Polybius, " Pytheas asserts that he explored in person the whole northern region of Europe as far as the ends of the world.

Strabo uses the astronomical cubit ( pēchus, the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the little finger ) as a measure of the elevation of the sun.

Still, some of the Celtic lands were on the channel and were visible from it, which Pytheas should have mentioned but Strabo implies he did not.

What is known about the easternmost satraps and borderlands of the Achaemenid Empire are alluded to in the Darius inscriptions and from Greek sources such as the Histories of Herodotus and the later Alexander Chronicles ( Arrian, Strabo et al .).

In fact, observations made by Polybius, in conjunction with passages from Strabo and Scylax, allowed the discovery of the location of the lost city of Kydonia on Crete.

Of these people Strabo writes: And their training in the use of slings used to be such, from childhood up, that they would not so much as give bread to their children unless they first hit it with the sling.

* 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 geographer Strabo, quoting earlier sources, states that the wealth of Tantalus was derived from the mines of Phrygia and Mount Sipylus.

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.

Strabo distinctly states they were not of Celtic origin and a different race from the Gauls.

Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in Pontus ( modern Amasya, Turkey ), a city that he said was situated the approximate equivalent of 75 km from the Black Sea.

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

According to Strabo, the country of the Belgae extended along the coast where fifteen tribes were living from the Rhenus ( Rhine ) to the Liger ( Loire ), the « Paroceanites » ( maritime Belgae ).

Their territory according to Strabo, Caesar and Ptolemy stretched from the mouth of the Rhine in the north, and southwards along the west of the Schelde.

By the end of the reign of Augustus, Strabo described Lugdunum as the junction of four major roads: south to Narbonensis, Massilia and Italy, north to the Rhine river and Germany, northwest to the Ocean ( the English Channel ), and west to Aquitania.

While Pliny may have been the primary source, scholars have identified others ; among them are Caesar's Gallic Wars, Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, Posidonius, Aufidius Bassus, and numerous non-literary sources: presumably based on interviews with traders and soldiers who had ventured beyond the Rhine and Danube borders, and Germanic mercenaries in Rome.

Strabo says that their Nervian and Tribocan neighbours were Germanic peoples who by that point had settled on the left bank of the Rhine, while the Treveri are implied to be Gaulish.

Strabo located the Sicambri next to the Menapii, “ who dwell on both sides of the river Rhine near its mouth, in marshes and woods.

According to Suetonius, Claudius sailed from Boulogne, and it is usually assumed that the main force under Plautius sailed from the same place, but it is possible that Plautius's forces sailed from the mouth of the Rhine, which Strabo names as a point of departure used for crossings to Britain in the early 1st century ; ships commonly sailed along the coast of Belgic Gaul to the territory of the Morini, before taking a relatively short open-sea crossing to Britain.

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.

Walafrid Strabo, a monk of the Abbey of St. Gall writing in the 9th century, remarked, in discussing the people of Switzerland and the surrounding regions, that only foreigners called them the Alemanni, but that they gave themselves the name of Suevi.

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.

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

The rest of fr. 350 was paraphrased in prose by the historian / geographer Strabo.

His Cynaedi, or Ionic poems (), are mentioned by Strabo and Athenaeus.

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

He was at the head of the Peripatetic school at Rome, about 58 BC, and was the teacher of Boethus of Sidon, with whom Strabo studied.

At the port city of Jaffa ( today part of Tel Aviv ) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.

Two important geographers, Strabo and Pliny, are silent concerning the Angles.

" However, both Strabo and Pliny describe that shore.

Strabo ( 7. 2. 1, 4 and 7. 3. 1 ) states that the Cimbri still live on the peninsula ( Jutland ) where they always did, even though some of them liked to wander.

For Strabo, the Suebi were to the south of the coast.

Other ancient historians and philosophers believing in the existence of Atlantis were Strabo and Posidonius.

; statements as to the origin of gods, cults and so forth, transmitted to us by Hellenic antiquarians such as Strabo, Pausanias, Diodorus Siculus, etc.

The settlements to which Strabo refers ( viii.