Definitions
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- Greek geographer and historian whose great work, Geography, is the only extant text describing the peoples known to the Greeks and Romans during the reign of Augustus.
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- proper noun Ancient Greek
geographer andhistorian from Amaseia inPontus .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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.
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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.”
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(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 1206
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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 1206
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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 1206
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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 1840-1916 1913
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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.
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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. 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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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.
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