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πέντε. Cf. i. 72. 3 n.

ἐξισοῦσθαι. H. ends with the statement with which he began The comparison is based on the love of symmetry which he tries in vain to banish from his geography (cf. App. XIII, §§ 2, 7); but this does not lead him to distort the facts he knows, e.g. he rightly says that the Ister (iv. 99. 1) runs into the sea πρὸς εὖρον, though obviously this direction does not suit his theory here.

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