[598] Dionysius of Charax. No particulars of him are known beyond those mentioned by Pliny.
[599] Caius, the son of Marcus Agrippa and Julia, the daughter of Augustus. He was the adopted son of Augustus.
[600] See B. iii. c. 1, p. 151, in vol. 1.
[601] In B. v. c. 21 and 22.
[602] Who called himself the King of kings, and was finally conquered by Pompey.
[603] The Mediterranean.
[604] See B. v. c. 12.
[605] Salmasius thinks that this should be written “Nombei;” but Hardouin remarks that the Nombæi were not of Arabian but Jewish extraction, and far distant from Mount Libanus.
[606] The only resemblance between them is, that each is a peninsula; that of Arabia being of far greater extent than Italy. It will be remarked that here, contrary to his ordinary practice, Pliny makes a distinction between the Red Sea and the Persian Sea or Gulf.
[607] “In eandem etiam cœli partem nulla differentia spectat.” A glance at the map will at once show the fallacy of this assertion.