Strabo

• “Ephorus in Strabo (x. 4 § 21) gives a curious account of the violent abduction of beloved boys ({Greek}) by the lover ({Greek}); of the obligations of the ravisher ({Greek}) to the favourite”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Then that passage in Strabo came to my memory, and I knew that beneath my feet lay the avenue leading to the long and vainly sought Serapeum.”

  A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

• “No. 5: “Richard’s unrestrained sarcastic inflection of this last word served not only to reinforce what a poor selection he thought I’d made in Strabo Blandiana but to assuage Perkins that the two of them still spoke above my head, and so his promise of future listening was sincere.””

  2009 November 05 « One-Minute Book Reviews

• “(See M. Guizot’s note above.) “Either, therefore, they were different places, or Strabo is mistaken.””

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “Book of Strabo is sufficient for our curiosity.] 20 Strabo, l.xiii. p. 595,”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “Suisse, tom.ii. p. 104.)] 129 The identity or proximity of the Chalybians, or Chaldaeana may be investigated in Strabo, (l.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “The inconsistencies of his policy may probably be explained by his having as rival another Theodoric, called Strabo”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon

• “The house – a slight, one-story building on a space of rocky platform – looks down upon a sandy hollow which now presents much the same appearance that it must have presented when Mariette was first reminded of the fortunate passage in Strabo.”

  A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

• “It is said that the father of Pompeius Magnus had a cook Menogenes, who was called Strabo, and that the name was given to Cn. Pompeius because he resembled his cook.”

  Plutarch's Lives Volume III.

• “Until now, the main evidence we had for the Sebasta was the inscription found at Olympia, supplemented by a few gleanings from ancient authors such as Strabo and Suetonius.”

  The Augustan Games of Naples

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