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quartus e magnis europae sinus ab hellesponto incipiens maeotis ostio finitur. sed totius ponti forma breviter conplectenda est, ut facilius partes noscantur. vastum mare, praeiacens asiae et ab europa porrecto cherronesi litore expulsum, angusto meatu inrumpit in terras, vii stadiorum, ut dictum est, intervallo europam auferens asiae. primas angustias hellespontum vocant; hac xerxes persarum rex constrato in navibus ponte duxit exercitum. porrigitur deinde tenuis euripus [lxxxvi] spatio ad priapum urbem asiae, qua magnus alexander transcendit. inde exspatiatur aequor rursusque in artum coit. laxitas propontis appellatur, angustiae thracius bosporus, latitudine quingentorum passuum, qua darius pater xerxis copias ponte transvexit. tota ab hellesponto longitudo [ccxxxix]. dein vastum mare pontus euxinus, qui quondam axenus, longe refugientes occupat terras magnoque litorum flexu retro curvatus in cornua ab iis utrimque porrigitur, ut sit plane arcus scythici forma. medio flexu iungitur ostio maeotii lacus. cimmerius bosporus id os vocatur, [ii] quingentorum passuum latitudine. at inter duos bosporos thracium et cimmerium derecto cursu, ut auctor est polybius, [d] intersunt. circuitus vero totius ponti viciens semel l, ut auctor est Varro et fere veteres. nepos cornelius [cccl] adicit, artemidorus vicies novies decem novem milia facit, agrippa [30xxv]30 [xl], mucianus [30xxiiii]30 [xxv]. simili modo de europae latere mensuram alii [30xiiii]30 [lxxviiii] determinavere, alii [30xi]30. M. Varro ad hunc modum metitur: ab ostio ponti apolloniam [clxxxvii] d p., callatim tantundem, ad ostium histri [cxxv], ad borysthenem [ccl], cherronesum heracleotarum oppidum [ccclxxv] p., ad panticapaeum, quod aliqui bosporum vocant, extremum in europae ora, [ccxii] d, quae summa efficit [30xiii]30 [xxxvii] d. agrippa a byzantio ad flumen histrum [dlx], inde panticapaeum [dcxxxviii]. lacus ipse maeotis, tanain amnem ex ripaeis montibus defluentem accipiens, novissimum inter europam asiamque finem, [30xiiii]30 [vi] circuitu patere traditur, ab aliis [30xi]30 [xxv]. ab ostio eius ad tanais ostium derecto cursu [cclxxv] esse constat. accolae sinus eius in mentione thraciae dicti sunt histropolin usque. inde ostia histri.

Naturalis Historia. Pliny the Elder. Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906.

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