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[12] Writers of the present day can describe with more certainty [than formerly] the Britons, the Germans, and the dwellers on either side of the Danube, the Getae,
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the Tyrigetae, the Bastarnae,
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the tribes dwelling by the Caucasus, such as the Albanians and Iberians.
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We are besides possessed of a description of Hyrcania
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and Bactriana in the Histories of Parthia written by such men as Apollodorus of Artemita,
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who leave detailed the boundaries [of those countries] with greater accuracy than other geographers.
The entrance of a Roman army into Arabia Felix under the command of my friend and companion Aelius Gallus,
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and the traffic of the Alexandrian merchants whose vessels pass up the Nile and Arabian Gulf
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to India, have rendered us much better acquainted with these countries than our predecessors were. I was with Gallus at the time he was prefect of Egypt, and accompanied him as far as Syene and the frontiers of Ethiopia, and I found that about one hundred and twenty ships sail from Myos-hormos
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to India, although, in the time of the Ptolemies, scarcely any one would venture on this voyage and the commerce with the Indies.
Geography. Strabo. Hans Claude Hamilton (Translator), William Falconer (Translator). London. 1854-1857.
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