Greek Texts & Translations

the Tyrigetae, the Bastarni, and the Sauromati, as far as the river Don, and the Lake Maeotis, ^note on its right being the whole of Thrace and Illyria, ^note and in fine the rest of Greece.

Fronting Europe lie the islands which we have mentioned. Without the Pillars, Gadeira, ^note the Cassiterides, ^note and the Britannic Isles. Within the Pillars are the Gymnesian Islands, ^note the other little islands of the Phoenicians, ^note the Marseillais, and the Ligurians; those fronting Italy as far as the islands of Aeolus and Sicily, and the whole of those ^note along Epirus and Greece, as far as Macedonia and the Thracian Chersonesus. 31

From the Don and the Maeotis ^note commences [Asia] on this side the Taurus; beyond these is [Asia] beyond the Taurus. For since this continent is divided into two by the chain of the Taurus, which extends from the extremities of Pamphylia to the shores of the Eastern Sea, ^note inhabited by the Indians and neighbouring Scythians, the Greeks naturally called that part of the continent situated north of these mountains [Asia] on this side the Taurus, and that on the south [Asia] beyond the Taurus. Consequently the parts adjacent to the Maeotis and Don are on this side the Taurus. The first of these is the territory between the Caspian Sea and the Euxine, bounded on one side ^note by the Don, the Exterior Ocean, ^note and the Sea of Hyrcania; on the other ^note by the Isthmus where it is narrowest from the recess of the Euxine to the Caspian.

Secondly, but still on this side the Taurus, are the countries above the Sea of Hyrcania as far as the Indians and