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I wonder, then, at those who have mapped out and divided the world into Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, Asia (continent)Asia, and Europe (continent)Europe; for the difference between them is great, seeing that in length Europe (continent)Europe stretches along both the others together, and it appears to me to be wider beyond all comparison.
I wonder, then, at those who have mapped out and divided the world into Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, Asia (continent)Asia, and Europe (continent)Europe; for the difference between them is great, seeing that in length Europe (continent)Europe stretches along both the others together, and it appears to me to be wider beyond all comparison.
[2] For
Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya shows clearly that it is bounded by the sea, except where it borders on
Asia (continent)Asia.
Necos king of
Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt first discovered this and made it known. When he had finished digging the canal which leads from the
Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile to the
Persian Gulf [53.83,25.583] (gulf), AsiaArabian Gulf, he sent
Phoenicians in ships, instructing them to sail on their return voyage past the Pillars of
Heracles until they came into the northern sea and so to
Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt.
[3] So the
Phoenicians set out from the
+Red Sea [42,15] (sea) Red Sea and sailed the southern sea; whenever autumn came they would put in and plant the land in whatever part of
Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya they had reached, and there await the harvest;
[4] then, having gathered the crop, they sailed on, so that after two years had passed, it was in the third that they rounded the pillars of
Heracles and came to
Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt. There they said (what some may believe, though I do not) that in sailing around
Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya they had the sun on their right hand.
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Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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