370 plint's natueal histoet. [Book IV.- 



follow, IS 1168 miles. But the better ascertained, thougli 

 greater length, is that taken from the Alps through the 

 Camp of the Legions^ in Germany, in a north-westerly 

 direction, to the mouth of the Ehine, being 1543 miles. 

 We shall now have to speak of Africa and Asia. 



Stjmmaet. — Towns and nations mentioned * * * *. Noted 

 rivers * * * *. l^'amous mountains * * * *. Islands * * * *. 

 People or towns no longer in existence * * * *, Kemarkable 

 events, narratives, and observations * * * *. 



EoMAN AuTHOES QUOTED. — Cato the Censor^, M. Yarro^ 

 M. Agrippa^, the late Emperor Augustus^, Varro Atacinus®, 

 Cornelius Nepos'', Hyginus^, L. Vetus®, Mela Pomponius^'*, 

 Licinius Mucianus^\ Pabricius Tuscus^^, Ateius Capito^^ 

 Ateius the Philologist^^. 



PoEEiGN AuTKOES QUOTED. — Polybius^^, Hecatseus ^^, 



^ The present Santen in the Duchy of Cleves. 



2 See end of B, iij. * See end of B. ii. ■* See end of B. iii. 



* See end of B. iii. ^ See end of B. iii. 7 See end of B. ii. 



8 See end of B. iii. ^ See end of B. iii. ^^ See end of B. iii. 



11 See end of B. ii. i^ See end of B. iii. 13 See end of B. iii. 



1^ Ateius, surnamed Prcetextatus, and also Philologus, which last 

 name he assumed to indicate his learning, was born at Athens, and was 

 one of the most celebrated grammarians of Rome, in the latter part of 

 the first century B.C. He was originally a freedman of the jurist Ateius 

 Capito, by whom he was described as " a rhetorician among grammarians, 

 and a grammarian among rhetoricians." He was on terms of intimacy 

 with Sallust the historian, and Asinius PoUio. It is supposed that he 

 assisted Sallust in the compilation of liis history ; but to what extent is 

 not known. But few of his numerous commentaries were extant even 

 in the time of Suetonius. 



1" A native of Megalopolis in Arcadia, born about B.C. 204. He was 

 trained probably in political knowledge and the mihtary art imder 

 Philopcemen, and was sent as a prisoner to Eome, vfiilx others, to 

 answer the charge of not aiding the Romans in their war against 

 Perseus. Here, by great good fortune, he secured the finendship of 

 Scipio Africanus, with whom he was present at the destruction of Car- 

 thage. His history is one of the most valuable works that has come 

 down to us from antiquity. 



i** Of Miletus, one of the earhest and most distinguished Greek his- 

 torians and geographers. He hvcd about the 65th Olympiad, or B.C. 

 520. A few li-agments, quoted, are all that are left of liis historical and 



