[43] The ancients portioned out the globe by bands or zones parallel to the equator, which they named κλίματα. The extent of each zone was determined by the length of the solstitial day, and thus each diminished in extent according as it became more distant from the equator. The moderns have substituted a mode of reckoning the degrees by the elevation of the pole, which gives the latitudes with much greater accuracy.
[44] Literally, the heat, cold, and temperature of the atmosphere.
[45] Tartary.
[46] France.
[47] Xylander and Casaubon remark that Strabo here makes an improper use of the term antipodes; the antipodes of Spain and India being in the southern hemisphere.
[48] Meteorology, from μετέωρος, aloft, is the science which describes and explains the various phenomena which occur in the region of the atmosphere.
[49] Homer, Iliad viii. 16.
[50] A people of Thessaly, on the banks of the Peneus.
[51] The former name of the Morea, and more ancient than Peloponnesus. Iliad i. 270.
[52] Having wandered to Cyprus, and Phœnice, and the Egyptians, I came to the Ethiopians, and Sidonians, and Erembi, and Libya, where the lambs immediately become horned. Odyssey iv. 83.