Strabo Geography 14.5.3

Horace Leonard Jones (Translator)

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Geography. Strabo. Horace Leonard Jones (Translator). London. 1924-1929.

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Geography (Books 6-14) (English) (Strabo. The Geography of Strabo, Vols. 3-6. Jones, Horace Leonard, translator. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1924-1929 (printing).)

Editions (1)
Γεωγραφικά Perseus (Strabo. Strabonis Geographica, Vols. 1-3. Meineke, August, editor. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.) — 14.5.3 focus
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Geography Perseus (Strabo. The Geography of Strabo, Vols. 1-3. Hamilton, Hans Claude, translator; Falconer, William, translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854-1857.) — 14.5.3 focus

Notes on the current edition

Geography

1. “Arsinoe” is thought to be an error for “Sydrie,” or “Syedra” or “Aunesis”.
2. Cp. 14. 6. 3.
3. Elsewhere (16. 2. 33) referred to as “Melaenae or Melaniae.”
4. The mouth of the Nile at Pelusium.
5. Elsewhere (14. 5. 19), “Pylae” (“Gates”) is called “a boundary between the Cilicians and the Syrians.”
6. i.e., the western borders (Celenderis, according to Artemidorus).
7. Elsewhere (16. 2. 33) the MSS. give the figures of Artemidorus as follows: “From Orthosia to Pelusium, 3650 stadia, including the sinuosities of the gulfs: from Melaenae, or Melaniae, in Cilicia near Celenderis, to the common boundaries of Cilicia and Syria, 1900; thence to the Orontes, 520; and then to Orthosia, 1130.” Groskurd, Forbiger and Meineke accept these figures and emend the present passage correspondingly.