Greek Texts & Translations

agreed that the voyage from Alexandria to Rhodes, and thence by Caria and Ionia to the Troad, Byzantium, and the Dnieper, is in a straight line with the course of the Nile. ^note

Taking therefore these distances, which have been ascertained by voyages, we have only to find out how far beyond the Dnieper the land is habitable, (being careful always to continue in the same straight line,) and we shall arrive at a knowledge of the northern boundaries of our earth.

Beyond the Dnieper dwell the Roxolani, ^note the last of the Scythians with which we are acquainted; they are nevertheless more south than the farthest nations ^note we know of beyond Britain. Beyond these Roxolani the country is uninhabitable on account of the severity of the climate. The Sauromate ^note who live around the Maeotis, and the other Scythians ^note as far as the Scythians of the East, dwell farther south.