The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) / Literally Translated, with Notes

by Strabo

[2602] The Sauromatæ, or Sarmatians, living to the east of the Sea of Azoff and along the banks of the Don.

[2603] The term Atlantic was applied with much more latitude by Strabo and Eratosthenes than by us.

[2604] But he himself turned back his shining eyes apart, looking towards the land of the equestrian Thracians and the close-fighting Mysians. Iliad xiii. 3.

[2605] The Strait of the Dardanelles.

[2606] Milkers of mares.

[2607] People who live on milk.

[2608] Devoid of riches.

[2609] Dwelling in waggons.

[2610] Perhaps Teurisci.

[2611] A note in the French translation suggests that Capnobatæ has some connexion with the practice of intoxication by inhaling smoke, and of using the vapour of linseed, burned upon red-hot stones, as a bath. See Herodot. book i. chap. 202; book iv. chap. 75.