Strabo Geography 4.6.8

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

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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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Γεωγραφικά Perseus (Strabo. Strabonis Geographica, Vols. 1-3. Meineke, August, editor. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.) — 4.6.8 focus

Notes on the current edition

Geography

1. The limits of these barbarous nations were continually varying according to their success in war, in general, however, the Rhaeti possessed the country of the Grisons, the Tyrol, and the district about Trent. The Lepontii possessed the Val Leventina. The Camuni the Val Camonica. The Vindelici occupied a portion of Bavaria and Suabia; on their west were the Helvetii or Swiss, and on the north the Boii, from whom they were separated by the Danube; these last people have left their name to Bohemia. The Norici possessed Styria, Carinthia, a part of Austria and Bavaria to the south of the Danube. The Breuni have given their name to the Val Braunia north of the Lago Maggiore; and the Genauni appear to have inhabited the Val Agno, between Lake Maggiore and the Lake of Como, although Strabo seems to place these people on the northern side of the Alps, towards the confines of Illyria.
2. The people of Franche Comté.
3. The Germans of Wirtemberg and Suabia.
4. The Licattii appear to have inhabited the country about the Lech, and the Clautinatii that about the Inn; the Vennones the Val Telline.
5. This disgusting brutality however is no more barbarous than the intention put by Homer into the mouth of Agamemnon, the king of men, which Scholiasts have in vain endeavoured to soften or excuse—
τῶν μήτις ὑπεκφύγοι αἰπὺν ὂλεθοͅον,
χεῖοͅάς θ̓ ἡμετερασ’ μηδ’ ὅντινα γαστέοͅι μήτηρ
κοῦρον ἐόντα φέροι, μηδ’ ὅς φύγοι ἀλλ ἅμα πάντες
̓ιλίου ἐξαπολοίατʼ, ἀκηδεστοι καὶ ἂφαντοι.
Iliad vi. 57–60.