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verum ut terrena demonstratio intellegatur, alexandri magni vestigiis insistimus. diognetus et baeton, itinerum eius mensores, scripsere a portis caspiis hecatompylon parthorum quot diximus milia esse, inde alexandriam arion, quam urbem is rex condidit, [dlxxv], prophthasiam drangarum [cxcviiii], arachosiorum oppidum [dlxv], ortospanum [clxxv], inde ad alexandri oppidum [l] - in quibusdam exemplaribus diversi numeri reperiuntur - ; hanc urbem sub ipso caucaso esse positam; ab ea ad flumen copheta et oppidum indorum peucolatim [ccxxxvii], unde ad flumen indum et oppidum taxilla [lx], ad hydaspen fluvium clarum [cxx], ad hypasim non ignobiliorem [30xxv]30 [iiii] [ccclxxxx], qui fuit alexandri itinerum terminus, exuperato tamen amne arisque in adversa ripa dicatis. epistulae quoque regis ipsius consentiunt his. reliqua inde seleuco nicatori peragrata sunt: ad sydrum [clxviiii], iomanem amnem tantundem - aliqua exemplaria adiciunt [v] passuum - , inde ad gangen [cxii] d, ad rhodaphan [dlxviiii] - alii [cccxxv] in hoc spatio produnt - , ad callinipaza oppidum [clxvii] d - alii [cclxv] - , inde ad confluentem iomanis et gangis [dcxxv] - plerique adiciunt [xiii] d - , ad oppidum palibothra [ccccxxv], ad ostium gangis [dcxxxvii] d. gentes, quas memorare non pigeat, a montibus hemodis, quorum promunturium imaus vocatur incolarum lingua nivosum sic significante, isari, cosiri, izi et per iuga chirotosagi multarumque gentium cognomen bragmanae, quorum mactocalingae; flumina prinas et cainnas, quod in gangen influit, ambo navigabilia; gentes calingae mari proximi et supra mandaei, malli quorum mons mallus, finisque tractus eius ganges.

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

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