Agatharchides, On the Erythraean Sea
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§ 100 In the forests of incense trees, however,...
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§ 101 The fragrance of the incense is strongest in the country of the Sabaeans...
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§ 102 The city of the Sabaeans...
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§ 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....
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§ 104 No nation seems to be more prosperous than the Sabaeans...
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§ 105 The sea near this country is white in appearance and similar to a river,...
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§ 106 In their country the heavenly bodies also behave remarkably....
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§ 107 As for the appearance of the sun, people say that it is peculiar and different in the regions beyond Ptolemais...
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§ 108 Of the winds the north and west and also the northwest and the east blow just as in other countries,...
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§ 109 In discussing the tides the author adduces various explanations and rejects all of them as in no way true....
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§ 110 In the strait just mentioned, he says, a strange thing occurs with regard to olive trees....
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§ 111 Many other kinds of fish, he says, also are born in the previously mentioned places which are unusual in character....
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§ 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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