Volume 1
The geography of Strabo / Literally translated, with notes. The first six books by H. C .Hamilton, esq., the remainder by W. Falconer.
- Strabo
- Date:
- 1854-1857
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The geography of Strabo / Literally translated, with notes. The first six books by H. C .Hamilton, esq., the remainder by W. Falconer. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![properties are very different, for if those who do not know how to swim plunge into them, they are not covered over by them, but float on the surface like pieces of wood. The Palici' possess craters which cast up water in a jet, having the appearance of a dome, and then receive it back again into the same place it rose from. The cavern near Mataurum^ has within it a considerable channel, with a river flowing tlirough it under ground for a long distance, and afterwards emerging to the surface as does the El-Asi® in Syria, which, after descending into the chasm Ijetween Apa- meia and Antioch, which they call Charybdis, rises again to the surface at the distance of about 40 stadia. Much the same circumstances are remarked of the Tigris^ in Mesopo- tamia, and the Nile in Africa,^ a little before® its most noto- rious springs. The water in the neighbourhood of the city of Styrnphalus, having passed under ground about 200 stadia, gives rise to the river Erasinus^ in Argia and again, the waters which arc ingulfed with a low roaring sound near Asea® in Arcadia, after a long course, spring forth with such ' The place dedicated to these avengers of peijun,- is frequently located near Mineo and Palagonia; others, thinking to gain the support of Virgil’s testimony, place it near Paterno, much farther north, between Catana and Ceiitorbi, and not far from the banks of the Giaretta, the ancient Symoethus. ^ Cluvier supposes this cavern must have been ne.ar Mazanim [Mazara]. The river named Mazarus by the ancients, nins through a rocky district, abounding in stone quarries. It is possible that this river, much hemmed in throughout its course, might have anciently flowed beneath some of these massive rocks. ’ Oroiites. * According to Pliny, Hist. Xal. lib. vi. ^ 31, tom. i. p. 333, the Tigris is ingulfed on reaching a br.anch of Mount Taurus, at a place called Zoroanda, which M. D'.Vtiville identifies with the modern Hazour. * A(/3i'o; in Strabo. ® Kramer here persists in reading —oo, and rejects nTro; we have en- deavoured to translate it with Kramer, but the French translation of 18t>9 renders it, a little below its sources. '' A river of .Argolis: see book viii. Casaub. pp. 371 and 3S9. * Argolis. “ This ancient city was found in ruins by Pausanias, who says fAr- radie. or book viii. cap. 11, p. G91) “that at less than 20 stadia distant from the Athenmum arc fotind the ruins of .-Vsea, as well as the hill on which the citadel of the town was built, which was surrounded by walls, the vestiges of which still remain, .\bout 5 stadia from ,\sea, and not far from the main road, i^ the source of the .\lphcus, and, quite close,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24872556_0001_0430.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
