370 plikt's natueal histokt. [Eook lY. 
follow, IS 1168 miles. But the better ascertained, tliougli 
greater length, is that taken from the Alps through the 
Camp of the Legions^ in Grermany, in a north-westerly 
direction, to the mouth of the Ehine, being 154j3 miles. 
We shall now have to speak of Africa and Asia. 
Stjmmaet— Towns and nations mentioned * * * Noted 
rivers * * * Famous mountains * ^ ^ Islands * ^ * 
People or towns no longer in existence Eemarkable 
events, narratives, and observations 
EoMAis^ Atjthoks quoted. — Catothe 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^^. 
PoEEiGK AuTHOES QUOTED. — Polybius^^, Hecatgeus^^, 
1 The present Santen in the Duchy of Cleves. 
2 See end of B. iii. 3 gee end of B. ii. 4 gg^ g^^j ^ — ^ 
5 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. 12 gee end of B. iii. is gee end of B. iii. 
14 Ateius, surnamed JPrcetextatus, and also PhUologus, which last 
name he assumed to indicate his learning, was born at Athens, and was 
one of the most celebrated grammarians of Eome, 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 his 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 pohtical knowledge and the mihtary art under 
Philopoemen, and was sent as a prisoner to Rome, with others, to 
answer the charge of not aiding the Eomans 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. 
1^ Of Miletus, one of the earliest and most distinguished Greek his- 
torians and geographers. He hved about the 65th Olympiad, or B.C. 
520. A few fi'agments, quoted, are all that are left of his historical and 
