Strabo, Geography, Hans Claude Hamilton (Translator), William Falconer (Translator), 2.5.30

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[30] After Italy and Keltica, the remainder of Europe extends towards the east, and is divided into two by the Danube. This river flows from west to east, and discharges itself into the Euxine Sea, leaving on its left the entire of Germany commencing from the Rhine, as well as the whole of the Getae, the Tyrigetae, the Bastarni, and the Sauromati, as far as the river Don, and the Lake Maeotis,¹ on its right being the whole of Thrace and Illyria,² and in fine the rest of Greece.

Fronting Europe lie the islands which we have mentioned. Without the Pillars, Gadeira,³ the Cassiterides,⁴ and the Britannic Isles. Within the Pillars are the Gymnesian Islands,⁵ the other little islands of the Phoenicians,⁶ the Marseillais, and the Ligurians; those fronting Italy as far as the islands of Aeolus and Sicily, and the whole of those⁷ along Epirus and Greece, as far as Macedonia and the Thracian Chersonesus.

Geography. Strabo. Hans Claude Hamilton (Translator), William Falconer (Translator). London. 1854-1857.

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Geography (English) (Strabo. The Geography of Strabo, Vols. 1-3. Hamilton, Hans Claude, translator; Falconer, William, translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854-1857.)

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[30] μετὰ δὲ τὴν Ἰταλίαν καὶ τὴν Κελτικὴν τὰ πρὸς ἕω λοιπά ἐστι τῆς Εὐρώπης, ἃ δίχα τέμνεται τῷ Ἴστρῳ ποταμῷ. φέρεται δʼ οὗτος ἀπὸ τῆς ἑσπέρας ἐπὶ τὴν ἕω καὶ τὸν Εὔξεινον πόντον ἐν ἀριστερᾷ λιπὼν τήν τε Γερμανίαν ὅλην ἀρξαμένην ἀπὸ τοῦ Ῥήνου καὶ τὸ Γετικὸν πᾶν καὶ τὸ τῶν Τυρεγετῶν καὶ Βασταρνῶν καὶ Σαυροματῶν μέχρι Τανάιδος ποταμοῦ καὶ τῆς Μαιώτιδος λίμνης, ἐν δεξιᾷ δὲ τήν τε Θρᾴκην ἅπασαν καὶ τὴν Ἰλλυρίδα, λοιπὴν δὲ καὶ τελευταίαν τὴν Ἑλλάδα. πρόκεινται δὲ νῆσοι τῆς Εὐρώπης ἃς ἔφαμεν, ἔξω μὲν στηλῶν Γάδειρά τε καὶ Καττιτερίδες καὶ Βρεττανικαί, ἐντὸς δὲ στηλῶν αἵ τε Γυμνήσιαι καὶ ἄλλα νησίδια Φοινίκων καὶ τὰ τῶν Μασσαλιωτῶν καὶ Λιγύων καὶ αἱ πρὸ τῆς Ἰταλίας μέχρι τῶν Αἰόλου νήσων καὶ τῆς Σικελίας, ὅσαι τε περὶ τὴν Ἠπειρῶτιν καὶ Ἑλλάδα καὶ μέχρι Μακεδονίας καὶ τῆς Θρᾳκίας χερρονήσου.

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Geography

1. The Getae inhabited Moldavia. The Tyrigetae, or Getae of Tyras or the Dniester, dwelt on the banks of that river. The Bastarni inhabited the Ukraine. The Sarmatians, or Sauromatians, extended along either bank of the Don and the environs of the Sea of Azof, the ancient Palus Maeotis.

2. Thrace and Macedonia form part of the modern Roumelia: Illyria comprehended Dalmatia, Bosnia, Croatia, etc.

3. Cadiz.

4. The Scilly Isles.

5. Majorca and Minorca.

6. Iviça, Formentera, Spalmador, etc. They were called Phoenician Islands, because the Carthaginians had sent out a colony thither 160 years after the founding of their city.

7. Namely all the islands of the Icnian and Aegaean Seas, from Corfu to the Dardanelles.

Strabo Geography 2.5.30

Hans Claude Hamilton (Translator), William Falconer (Translator)

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