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[22] ᾿επιμένων δὲ τοῖς περὶ Ὁμήρου ψευδῶς ὑποληφθεῖσι καὶ ταῦτά φησιν, ὅτι οὐδὲ τὰ τοῦ Νείλου στόματα οἶδε πλείω ὄντα οὐδ᾽ αὐτὸ τοὔνομα, Ἡσίοδος δὲ οἶδε: μέμνηται γάρ. τὸ μὲν οὖν ὄνομα εἰκὸς μήπω λέγεσθαι κατ᾽ αὐτόν: τὰ δὲ στόματα εἰ μὲν ἦν ἀφανῆ καὶ ὀλίγοις γνώριμα ὅτι πλείω καὶ οὐχ ἕν, δοίη τις ἂν μὴ πεπύσθαι αὐτόν: εἰ δὲ τῶν κατ᾽ Αἴγυπτον τὸ γνωριμώτατον καὶ παραδοξότατον καὶ μάλιστα πάντων μνήμης ἄξιον καὶ ἱστορίας ὁ ποταμὸς καὶ ἦν καὶ ἐστίν, ὡς δ᾽ αὕτως αἱ ἀναβάσεις αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ στόματα, τίς ἂν ἢ τοὺς ἀγγέλλοντας αὐτῷ ποταμὸν Αἴγυπτον καὶ χώραν καὶ Θήβας Αἰγυπτίας καὶ Φάρον ὑπολάβοι μὴ γνωρίζειν ταῦτα, ἢ γνωρίζοντας μὴ λέγειν, πλὴν εἰ μὴ διὰ τὸ γνώριμον; ἔτι δ᾽ ἀπιθανώτερον, εἰ τὴν μὲν Αἰθιοπίαν ἔλεγε καὶ Σιδονίους καὶ Ἐρεμβοὺς καὶ τὴν ἔξω θάλατταν καὶ τὸ διχθὰ δεδάσθαι τοὺς Αἰθίοπας, τὰ δ᾽ ἐγγὺς καὶ γνώριμα μή. εἰ δὲ μὴ ἐμνήσθη τούτων, οὐ τοῦτο σημεῖον τοῦ ἀγνοεῖν: οὐδὲ γὰρ τῆς αὐτοῦ πατρίδος ἐμνήσθη οὐδὲ πολλῶν ἄλλων, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον τὰ λίαν γνώριμα ὄντα φαίη τις ἂν δόξαι μὴ ἄξια μνήμης εἶναι πρὸς τοὺς εἰδότας.
Strabo. ed. A. Meineke, Geographica. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.
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