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along Mauritania, has now been navigated. Indeed the 
greater part of this region, as well as of the east, as far as the 
Arabian Grulf, was surveyed in consequence of Alexander's 
victories. When Caius Caesar, the son of Augustus \ had the 
conduct of affairs in that country, it is said that they found the 
remains of Spanish vessels which had been wrecked there. 
While the power of Carthage was at its height, Hanno pub- 
lished an account of a voyage which he made from Grades to 
the extremity of Arabia^; Himilco was also sent, about the 
same time, to explore the remote parts of Europe. Besides, 
we learn from Corn. JN^epos, that oneEudoxus, a contemporary 
of his^, when he was flying from king Lathyrus, set out from 
the Arabian Grulf, and was carried as far as Gades^. And long 
before him, Cselius Antipater^ informs us, that he had seen 
a person who had sailed from Spain to Ethiopia for the pur- 
poses of trade. The same Cornelius Nepos, when speaking of 
the northern circumnavigation, tells us that Q. Metellus Celer, 
the colleague of L. Afranius in the consulship, but then a 
proconsul in GrauP, had a present made to him by the king 
of the Suevi, of certain Indians, who sailing from India for 
the purpose of commerce, had been driven by tempests into 
Germany^. Thus it appears, that the seas which flow com- 
different parts of his work, ii. 112 and vi. 7, appear so inconsistent with 
each other, that we must suppose he indiscriminately borrowed them from 
various writers, without comparing their accounts, or endeavouring to 
reconcile them to each other. Such inaccuracies may be thought almost 
to justify the censure of Alexandre, who styles our author, "indihgens 
plane veri et falsi compilator, et ubi dissentiunt auctores, nunquam aut 
raro sibi constans." Lemaire, i. 378. 
^ The son of Agrippa, whom Augustus adopted. Hardouin, in Lemaire, 
i. 378. 
2 See Beloe's Herodotus, ii. 393, 394, for an account of the voyage 
round Africa that was performed by the Phoenicians, who were sent to 
explore those parts by Necho king of Egypt. 
3 It is generally supposed that C. Nepos Hved in the century previous 
to the Christian sera. Ptolemy Lathyrus commenced his reign tj.c. 627 
or B.C. 117, and reigned for 36 years. The references made to 0. Nepos 
are not found in any of his works now extant. 
. ^ We have previously referred to Eudoxus, note ^, p. 78. 
^ We have a brief account of Antipater in Hardouin' s Index Auctorum; 
Lemaire, i. 162. 
^ We are informed by Alexandre that this was ha. the year of the City 691, 
the same year in which Cicero was consul ; see note in. Lemaire, i. 379. 
7 It is scarcely necessary to remark, that the account here given must 
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