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This parallel, according to Eratosthenes, passes through Caria, Lycaonia, Cataonia, Media, the Caspian Gates, and India next the Caucasus. note 40
In the parts of the Troad next Alexandria note in Amphipolis, note Apollonia in Epirus, note the countries just south of
Rome and north of Neapolis, the longest day consists of fifteen hours. This parallel is distant from that of Alexandria
in Egypt 7000 stadia to the north, above 28,800 stadia north
of the equator, and 3400 stadia from the parallel of Rhodes;
it is south of Byzantium, Nicaae, note and Marseilles
About Byzantium the longest day consists of fifteen
and a quarter equinoctial hours; the proportion borne by the
gnomon to the shadow at the summer solstice, is as 120 to
42, minus one-fifth. These places are distant note from the middle of Rhodes about 4900 stadia, and 30,300 from the equator.
Sailing into the Euxine and advancing
In regions 3800 stadia north of Byzantium the longest day consists of sixteen equinoctial hours; the constellation Cassiopeia being brought within the arctic circle. These regions are situated around [the mouth of] the Dnieper and the southern parts of the Maeotis, at a distance from the equator of 34,100 stadia; and the northern part of the horizon during almost all the summer nights is illuminated by the light of the sun; a certain degree of light continuing from sunset to sunrise. For the summer tropic is distant from the
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