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... eastward are the Indi , on the river Indus ; the more distant East consists of deserts , where the Araxes loses itself by forty mouths in the sand . Herodotus treats of Africa with more minuteness than either of Asia or of Europe . The ...
... eastward are the Indi , on the river Indus ; the more distant East consists of deserts , where the Araxes loses itself by forty mouths in the sand . Herodotus treats of Africa with more minuteness than either of Asia or of Europe . The ...
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... eastward he called Asia . He marks the northern boundary of the known world by a line drawn from Narbo to the mouth of the Tanais . He is uncertain , whether Asia and Libya meet southward be- yond the Ocean * , or whether , should it ...
... eastward he called Asia . He marks the northern boundary of the known world by a line drawn from Narbo to the mouth of the Tanais . He is uncertain , whether Asia and Libya meet southward be- yond the Ocean * , or whether , should it ...
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... eastward Thinæ . It is , however , striking , that his view of the utmost north is more limited than that of Eratosthenes ; for Strabo considers Ierne as the northernmost land , whilst Eratosthenes rightly mentions Thule beyond Ierne ...
... eastward Thinæ . It is , however , striking , that his view of the utmost north is more limited than that of Eratosthenes ; for Strabo considers Ierne as the northernmost land , whilst Eratosthenes rightly mentions Thule beyond Ierne ...
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... eastward ; show- ing the communication with these countries to have been by land across Thibet , or more probably the Birman empire , and not by sea alone . The northern boundary of the Sinæ is Serica , their capital Thinæ ; south of ...
... eastward ; show- ing the communication with these countries to have been by land across Thibet , or more probably the Birman empire , and not by sea alone . The northern boundary of the Sinæ is Serica , their capital Thinæ ; south of ...
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... eastward , they had a confused notion of Serica , or the north - western part of China , as an undefined continuation of Scythia . India they knew as far as the Ganges . The country beyond that river was comprised under the name of ...
... eastward , they had a confused notion of Serica , or the north - western part of China , as an undefined continuation of Scythia . India they knew as far as the Ganges . The country beyond that river was comprised under the name of ...
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Adriatic Ægean Ægyptus Africa afterwards Alexander Alps antiently called Apennines Apollo Armenia Asia Athenians Augustus battle birth-place Bithynia Boeotia built Cæsar capital Caria Caspian celebrated centre chief city chief rivers Cilicia coast Colchis colony confines Cyrus Danube death defeated district east eastern eastward Egypt Emperor empire Epirus Euphrates Euxine extended extremity flows Galatia Gallia Gaul geographical giving name Grecian Greece Greeks Gulf hence Hercules Herodotus Homer Horace inhabitants Insula island Italy Jupiter killed king Lacedæmonians lake Latium Lilybæum Locri Macedonia Mediterranean memorable mentioned miles modern Mons Montes Mount mountains mouth Nile north-east north-west northern Numidia occupied Ovid Palus Paphlagonia peninsula Persian Phrygia Pisidia Pompey principal city promontory province Ptolemy Punic Rhine Roman Rome Scipio Scythia second Punic war shore Sicily side Sinus south-east south-west southern southward Strabo Syria Syrtis Syrtis Major temple Thessaly Tiber tribes Vindelicia Virg western whence
Popular passages
Page 52 - Charybdis 420 obsidet, atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos sorbet in abruptum fluctus rursusque sub auras erigit alternos et sidera verberat unda.
Page 51 - Portus ab accessu ventorum immotus et ingens 570 ipse; sed horrificis iuxta tonat Aetna ruinis interdumque atram prorumpit ad aethera nubem, turbine fumantem piceo et candente favilla, attollitque globos flammarum et sidera lambit: interdum scopulos avolsaque viscera montis 575 erigit eructans liquefactaque saxa sub auras cum gemitu glomerat fundoque exaestuat imo.
Page 66 - Rhenumque bibunt. venient annis saecula seris, quibus Oceanus vincula rerum laxet et ingens pateat tellus Tethysque novos detegat orbes nee sit terris ultima Thule.
Page 136 - Ibimus, o socii comitesque ! Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro : Certus enim promisit Apollo Ambiguam tellure nova Salamina futuram. O fortes, pejoraque passi 30 Mecum saepe viri, nunc vino pellite curas ; Cras ingens iterabimus aequor.
Page 25 - Fluminaque antiquos subterlabentia muros. An mare, quod supra, memorem, quodque alluit infra ? Anne lacus tantos ? te, Lari maxime, teque, Fluctibus et fremitu assurgens, Benace, marino...
Page 47 - Tendit, Antoni, quotiens in altos Nubium tractus. Ego apis Matinae More modoque Grata carpentis thyma per laborem Plurimum circa nemus uvidique Tiburis ripas operosa parvus Carmina fingo.
Page 199 - Urbs antiqua fuit, Tyrii tenuere coloni, Carthago, Italiam contra Tiberinaque longe Ostia, dives opum studiisque asperrima belli...
Page 202 - Hic vir, hic est, tibi quem promitti saepius audis, Augustus Caesar, Divi genus: aurea condet Saecula qui rursus Latio, regnata per arva Saturno quondam...
Page 125 - Unde simul primum me dimisere Philippi Decisis humilem pennis, inopemque paterni Et laris et fundi, paupertas impulit audax, Ut versus facerem : sed, quod non desit, habentem Quae poterunt unquam satis expurgare cicutae, Ni melius dormire putem, quam scribere versus?
Page 26 - Fonte cadit modico, parvisque impellitur undis Puniceus Rubicon, cum fervida canduit aestas : Perque imas serpit valles, et Gallica certus Limes ab Ausoniis disterminat arva colonis.