Transcriber's note:
Volumes I and II are available from Project Gutenberg athttp://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44884 andhttp://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44885 respectively.
In this book many city names are spelled in different ways. When thecorrect spelling is obvious these have been corrected for the sake ofconsistency. See the list of modern names at the end of this volume.
Minor index errors have also been corrected.
The cover image was created by the transcriberand is placed in the public domain.
LITERALLY TRANSLATED, WITH NOTES.
THE FIRST SIX BOOKS
BY H. C. HAMILTON, ESQ.
THE REMAINDER
BY W. FALCONER, M.A.,
LATE FELLOW OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD,
RECTOR OF BUSHEY, HERTFORDSHIRE.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
WITH A COMPLETE INDEX.
LONDON:
HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
MDCCCLVII.
JOHN CHILDS AND SON, BUNGAY.
Strabo, the author of this work, was born at Amasia, or Amasijas, a townsituated in the gorge of the mountains through which passes the riverIris, now the Ieschil Irmak, in Pontus, which he has described in the12th book.1 He lived during the reign of Augustus, and the earlierpart of the reign of Tiberius; for in the 13th book2 he relates howSardes and other cities, which had suffered severely from earthquakes,had been repaired by the provident care of Tiberius the present Emperor;but the exact date of his birth, as also of his death, are subjects ofconjecture only. Coraÿ and Groskurd conclude, though by a somewhatdifferent argument, that he was born in the year B. C. 66, and thelatter that he died A. D. 24. The date of his birth as argued byGroskurd, proceeds on the assumption that Strabo was in histhirty-eighth year when he went from Gyaros to Corinth, at which latterplace Octavianus Cæsar was then staying on his return to Rome after thebattle of Actium, B. C. 31. We may, perhaps, be satisfied with followingClinton, and place it not later than B. C. 54.
In the 17th book our author speaks of the death of Juba as a recentoccurrence. This event took place A. D. 21, or A. D. 18 or 19, accordingto other chronologists; he, therefore, outlived that king, but for howlong a period we have no means of ascertaining.
The only information which we can obtain of the personal history ofStrabo is to be collected from the scanty references made to himself inthe course of this work;3 for although a writer of the Augustan age,his name and his works appear[Pg vi]to have been generally unknown to hiscontemporaries, and to have been passed over in silence by subsequentauthors who occupied themselves with the same branch of study. The workbeing written in Greek, and the subject itself not of a popular kind,would be hindrances to its becoming g