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For the milk of the cattle which feed there does not yield any whey, and they are obliged to mix it with large quantities of water when they make cheese on account of its richness. After fifty days the beasts [pasturing there] would be choked unless they were let blood. The pasturage of the country is dry, but it fattens wonderfully: and it is thought that from this the myth concerning the oxen of Geryon took its rise. The whole sea-shore however is possessed in common. note 5
Concerning the foundation of Gades, the Gaditanians
report that a certain oracle commanded the Tyrians to found
a colony by the Pillars of Hercules. Those who were sent
out for the purpose of exploring, when they had arrived at
the strait by Calpe, imagined that the capes which form the
strait were the boundaries of the habitable earth, as well as of
the expedition of Hercules, and consequently they were what
the oracle termed the Pillars. They landed on the inside of
the straits, at a place where the city of the Exitani now stands.
Here they offered sacrifices, which however not being favourable, they returned. After a time others were sent, who advanced about
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