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The crucial part of this sentence is lost from the text of Polybius and the MSS. of Livy offer a variety of readings. No combination of emendations has been found which pays due regard to the readings of the Livy MSS. and also gives a definite and easily recognizable boundary. I have therefore translated the text as it is printed in the latest Weissenborn-Mueller revision, although I may have given to
Tauri a construction differing from theirs. I have chosen this course with full appreciation of the difficulties involved, some of which it seems proper to discuss briefly. The reference to the Halys river seems inappropriate unless it was the intention of the treaty-makers to dispose also of the territories brought to notice by the defeat of the Gauls. But no Tanaïs river is known and a Taurus river must be imaginatively identified. (Livy mentions a river of this name in xv. 7 above, but even if he is correct the position he gives it is wrong.) Furthermore, no natural boundary is provided between the crest of the Taurus range and the Halys river (I presume that this means the portion of the river above the point where it turns north-west near the Cappadocian — Cilician frontier). If a Tanais river could be plausibly identified north of the Taurus range, I should be inclined to read . . .
cis Taurum montem usque ad Tanaim amnem, et ab ea valle Tauri usque ad iuga . . . (
on this side of the Taurus mountain as far as the river Tanaïs and from the valley of this river as far as the crest of Taurus
), although the order in which these geographical points are mentioned seems unnatural. It seems hardly necessary to establish an eastern frontier for Asia. For reviews of recent discussion of these questions see the
Bericht on Livy by Rau and that on Greek History by Lenschau in
Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, 242, 1934, esp. p. 87, and 244, 1934, esp. pp. 120-121, respectively, and Map 3 in this volume.
