[698] The Rock of Gibraltar.
[699] Cape St. Vincent.
[700] Cadiz.
[701] The Italian Promontory.
[702] The Gulf of Venice.
[703] Capo di Leuca.
[704] ἡ δὲ φυσικὴ ἀρετή τις. We learn from the work entitled De Placitis Philosophorum, commonly attributed to Plutarch, that the Stoics dignified with the name of ἀρεταὶ, the three sciences of Physics, Ethics, and Logic, Φυσικὴ, Ἠθικὴ, Λογικὴ. The exact meaning of ἀρετὴ in these instances it is impossible to give, and Strabo’s own explanation is perhaps the best that can be had; we have here rendered it, “perfect science,” for want of a better phrase.
[705] Φυσικοὶ.
[706] We have followed the suggestion of Gosselin in reading τῷ ὅλῳ, the whole, instead of τῷ πόλῳ, the pole, as in the text. Strabo having just previously stated that the axis of the earth was stationary, it does not seem probable that he would immediately after speak of the motion of the pole.
[707] Odyssey xi. 156, 157.