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παρ᾽ ἀμφοτέρας. H. reckons all Northern Asia, so far as he knows it, to Europe. The greater knowledge of the moderns reverses his arrangement; Stanford (quoted by Macan) says ‘Europe is after all only a peninsula of Asia’.

εὔρεος. The continents cannot (H. thinks) be compared, for the northern boundaries of Europe are unknown, and therefore it is far broader, while the southern boundaries of Asia and of Africa had been rounded by Scylax (c. 44) and by the Phoenicians (v. i.).

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