Greek Texts & Translations

abounding with wild animals and trees of a great size. They say, that the length of the strait at the pillars is 120 stadia, and the least breadth at Elephas ^note 60 stadia On sailing further along the coast, we find cities and many rivers, as far as the river Molochath, ^note which is the boundary between the territories of the Mauretanians and of the Masaesyli. Near the river is a large promontory, and Metagonium, ^note a place without water and barren. The mountain extends along the coast, from the Coteis nearly to this place. Its length from the Coteis to the borders of the Masaesylii ^note is 5000 stadia. Metagonium is nearly opposite to New Carthage. ^note Timosthenes is mistaken in saying that it is opposite to Massalia. ^note The passage across from New Carthage to Metagonium is 3000 stadia, but the voyage along the coast to Massalia is above 6000 stadia. 7

Although the Mauretanians inhabit a country, the greatest part of which is very fertile, yet the people in general continue even to this time to live like nomades. They bestow care to improve their looks by plaiting their hair, trimming their beards, by wearing golden ornaments, cleaning their teeth, and paring their nails; and you would rarely see them