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Agatharchides, On the Erythraean Sea

ToposText · Agatharchides · 113 sections

  1. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0067.tlg001:100

    § 100 In the forests of incense trees, however,...

  2. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0067.tlg001:101

    § 101 The fragrance of the incense is strongest in the country of the Sabaeans...

  3. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0067.tlg001:102

    § 102 The city of the Sabaeans...

  4. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0067.tlg001:103

    § 103 Those of the men who devote their lives to lead a life little more valorous than that of women since they are rendered effeminate by constant idleness....

  5. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0067.tlg001:104

    § 104 No nation seems to be more prosperous than the Sabaeans...

  6. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0067.tlg001:105

    § 105 The sea near this country is white in appearance and similar to a river,...

  7. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0067.tlg001:106

    § 106 In their country the heavenly bodies also behave remarkably....

  8. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0067.tlg001:107

    § 107 As for the appearance of the sun, people say that it is peculiar and different in the regions beyond Ptolemais...

  9. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0067.tlg001:108

    § 108 Of the winds the north and west and also the northwest and the east blow just as in other countries,...

  10. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0067.tlg001:109

    § 109 In discussing the tides the author adduces various explanations and rejects all of them as in no way true....

  11. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0067.tlg001:110

    § 110 In the strait just mentioned, he says, a strange thing occurs with regard to olive trees....

  12. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0067.tlg001:111

    § 111 Many other kinds of fish, he says, also are born in the previously mentioned places which are unusual in character....

  13. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0067.tlg001:112

    § 112 We have carefully recorded in five books the situation concerning the tribes located in the south as they were in our time....

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Via ToposText (topostext.org), a project of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation created by Brady Kiesling. Translated by Stanley M. Burstein . Composed ca. 145 BCE. Licence: copyright Hakluyt Society. Source.