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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![common in the neighbourhood of the embouchure of the Palus Mmotis ; * for the passage from Panticapmurn,^ across to Pha- nagoria,® is at times performed in waggons, thus l>eing both a sea passage'* and an overland route [as the season may de- termine]. There are also fish which are taken in the ice by means of a round net called a gangama, and especially a kind of sturgeon called antacseus,’ nearly the size of a dolphin. It is related that Neoptolemus, the general of Mithridates,** defeated the barbarians during summer-time in a naval en- gagement in this very strait, and during the winter in a cavalry action. They say that about the Bosphorus the vine is hidden away in the earth in winter, great mounds of mould being piled over it [to jireserve it from the frost]. They also report that the heats are excessive, [this may be accounted for in several ways,] perhaps men’s bodies not being accus- tomed to them, feel them the more; perhaps the plains are at that time unrefreshed by Avinds; or perhaps the thickness of tlie air is heated to a great degree, similar to the way in Avhich the misty air is affected in times Avhen a parhelion is observed. It appears that Ateas, who carried on war against Philip,^ the son of Amyntas, had the rule over most of the barbarians of these parts. 19. After the island® situated opposite the mouth of the Dnieper, in sailing towards the east, we arrive at the cape of the Course of Achilles.'® The district is quite bare, notwith- standing that it is termed a wood. It is sacred to Achilles. Then tve arrive at the Course of Achilles, a low peninsula; for it is a certain tongue of laud about a thousand stadia in length, runuing out towards the east, and its width is but two * The Strait of Zabache, or Icni-Kale. - Panticapasum, now Kerisch or Wospor in Europe. ^ PhanaRoria was on the .Asiatic coast of the Bosphorus. We entirely agree with Kramer in favouring Coray's emendation of ttAoi'i' for the reading of MSS. * Herodotus, book iv. chap. .b.S, says this fishing was carried on in the Dnieper. ^Ellian, de Natur. .Animal, book siv. chap. 26, refers it to the Danube. Strabo has before alluded to this fact, book ii. chap. i. § 16, p. 114. ■ Ltician, in Macrob. ^ 10, spells his name .Anteas, and relates that he was killed in this war when uitwards of 90 years of age. Father of Alexander the Great. ® The Island of Berezan. M. Gossellin identifies this as Cape Czile.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24872556_0001_0486.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
