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[5] I mean, so to speak, to compare small things with great. Such a land is the
Tauric country. But those who have not sailed along that part of
Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica may understand from this other analogy: it is as though in
+Calabria [16.5,39] (region), Italy, Europe Calabria some other people, not
Calabrian, were to live on the promontory within a line drawn from the harbor of
+Brindisi [17.95,40.616] (inhabited place), Brindisi, Apulia, Italy, Europe Brundisium to
+Taranto [17.216,40.466] (inhabited place), Taranto, Apulia, Italy, Europe Tarentum. I am speaking of these two countries, but there are many others of a similar kind that
+Crimea (region (general)), Krym, Ukraine, Europe Tauris resembles.
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Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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