370 plint's NATITEAL 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 Khine, being 1543 miles. 

 "We shall now have to speak of Africa and Asia. 



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

 rivers * * * *. !b'amous mountains * * * *. Islands * * * *. 

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

 events, narratives, and observations * * * *. 



EoMAN AuTHOES QUOTED. — Catotho Censor', M. Yarro', 

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

 Cornelius Nepos', Hyginus", L. Vetus", Mela Pomponius'", 

 Licinius Mucianus", Fabricius Tuscus*^, Ateius Capito^, 

 Ateius the Philologist '\ 



FoEEiGN AuTUOES QUOTED. — Polybius", HecatsBus", 



* The present Santen in the Duchy of Cleres. 



' See end of B. iii. » See end of B. ii. •* See end of B. iii. 



6 See end of B. iii. « See end of B. iii. ^ See end of B. iL 



« See end of B. iii. » See end of B. iii. " See end of B. iiL 



» See end of B. ii. >2 See end of B. iii. " See end of B. iii. 



^* Ateius, sumamed Prcetextatus, and also Philologus, which kst 

 name he assumed to indicate his learning, wa« bom 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 fireedman 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 SaUust the historian, and Asinius PoUio. It is supposed that he 

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

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

 in the time of Suetonius. 



10 A native of Megalopohs in Arcadia, bom about B.C. 204. He was 

 trained probably in political knowledge and the mihtary art under 

 Philopcemen, and was sent as a prisoner to Rome, with others, to 

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

 Perseus. Here, by great good fortune, he secured the friendship 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<5 Of Miletus, one of the earliest and most distinguished Greek his- 

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

 520. A few fragment;?, quoted, are all that are left of his historical and 



