The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3): Literally Translated, with Notes

In this book many city names are spelled in different ways. When the correct spelling is obvious these have been corrected for the sake of consistency. See the list of modern names at the end of this volume. Minor index errors have also been corrected. The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain. THE GEOGRAPHY OF STRABO. LITERALLY TRANSLATED, WITH NOTES. THE FIRST SIX BOOKS BY H. C. HAMILTON, ESQ. THE REMAINDER BY W. FALCONER, M.A., LATE FELLOW OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD, RECTOR OF BUSHEY, HERTFORDSHIRE. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. WITH A COMPLETE INDEX. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. MDCCCLVII. JOHN CHILDS AND SON, BUNGAY. PREFACE. Strabo , the author of this work, was born at Amasia, or Amasijas, a town situated in the gorge of the mountains through which passes the river Iris, now the Ieschil Irmak, in Pontus, which he has described in the 12th book. 1 He lived during the reign of Augustus, and the earlier part of the reign of Tiberius; for in the 13th book 2 he relates how Sardes and other cities, which had suffered severely from earthquakes, had been repaired by the provident care of Tiberius the present Emperor; but the exact date of his birth, as also of his death, are subjects of conjecture only. Coraÿ and Groskurd conclude, though by a somewhat different argument, that he was born in the year B. C. 66, and the latter that he died A. D. 24. The date of his birth as argued by Groskurd, proceeds on the assumption that Strabo was in his thirty-eighth year when he went from Gyaros to Corinth, at which latter place Octavianus Cæsar was then staying on his return to Rome after the battle of Actium, B. C. 31. We may, perhaps, be satisfied with following Clinton, and place it not later than B. C. 54. In the 17th book our author speaks of the death of Juba as a recent occurrence. This event took place A. D. 21, or A. D. 18 or 19, according to other chronologists; he, therefore, outlived that king, but for how long a period we have no means of ascertaining. The only information which we can obtain of the personal history of Strabo is to be collected from the scanty references made to himself in the course of this work; 3…