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[2] Geryones lived west of the Pontus,1 settled in the island called by the Greeks Erythea, on the shore of Ocean near Gadira, outside the pillars of Heracles. As for Ocean, the Greeks say that it flows around the whole world from where the sun rises, but they cannot prove that this is so.

1 Very far west, Gadira being identified with Cadiz.

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