[2542] The ancient Tyras.
[2543] The Borysthenes.
[2544] The Bastarnæ were a people occupying portions of the modern Moldavia, Podolia, and the Ukraine.
[2545] The Tyregetæ, or the Getæ of the river Tyras, were a people dwelling on the Dniester, to the south of the Bastarnæ.
[2546] The ancient geographers supposed that the Northern Ocean extended to the 56° of north latitude. Their notions of the existence of the Baltic were vague. They therefore confounded it with the Northern Ocean, thus making the continent of Europe to extend only to the 56° of north latitude.
[2547] See book iv. chap. iv. § 2, pp. 291, 292.
[2548] Strabo’s words are, γνήσιοι γὰρ oἱ Γερμανοὶ κατὰ τὴν Ῥωμαίων διάλεκτον. It is possible he may be endeavouring to explain that the γερ in Germani is equivalent to the Latin verus, “true,” the wahr of modern German, and that Germani signifies the true men of the country, the undoubted autochthones of Galatia or Gaul.
[2549] The Marsi were a people dwelling on the banks of the Ems, near Munster.
[2550] The Sicambri were located near the Menapii. See above, p. 289.
[2551] The Albis.