Greek Texts & Translations

the Riphaean Mountains ^note and Mount Ogyium, ^note and the dwelling of the Gorgons ^note and the Hesperides, ^note the land of Meropis ^note mentioned by Theopompus, Cimmeris, ^note a city mentioned in Hecataeus, the land of Panchaea ^note mentioned by Euhemerus, and the river-stones formed of sand mentioned by Aristotle, ^note which were dissolved by rain-showers. Further, that there exists in Africa a city of Bacchus which no one can find twice. He likewise reproves those who assert that the wanderings of Ulysses mentioned in Homer were in the neighbourhood of Sicily, for again, if we should say that the wanderings did take place in those parts, we should have to confess that the poet transferred them to the ocean for the sake of making his account the more romantic. Some allowance might be made for others, but no manner of excuse can be put forward for Callimachus, who pretends to the character of a critic, and yet supposes that Gaudus was the island of Calypso, and identifies Scheria with Corcyra. ^note Other writers he blames for misstatements as to Gerena, ^note Acacesium, ^note and