Strabo, Geography 16.2.27
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Context
Strabo was a scholar from a prosperous family in north central Asia
Minor. He spent much of his career during the reign of Augustus traveling for research to
compile an encyclopedic survey of the contemporary world. His work in 17 books chronicles
the geographic and ethnographic diversity of the Mediterranean basin and those regions of
Europe, the Middle East, and north Africa under Roman rule in the first decades of the
principate. His survey moves systematically from West to East, covering in its penultimate
book the settlements along the Levantine coast.
Text
Μετὰ δὲ τὴν Ἄκην
Στράτωνος πύργος πρόσορμον ἔχων. Μεταξὺ δὲ ὅ τε Κάρμηλος τὸ ὄρος
καὶ πολιχνίων ὀνόματα, πλέον δ’ οὐδέν, Συκαμίνων πόλις, Βουκόλων καὶ Κροκοδείλων πόλις καὶ
ἄλλα τοιαῦτα· εἶτα δρυμὸς μέγας τις.
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Textual Note
Ed. Meineke 1877Translation
After Ake is
Strato’s Tower, which has a landing for ships. Between the two is
Mount Carmel, as well as towns of which remains and nothing more remain—Sykaminopolis,
Boukolos and Krokodeilopolis, and others like them. Then comes a large forest.
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Translation Note
Adapted from Jones 1930Works Cited
- 1 Strabo, Strabonis Geographica III, ed. August Meineke, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1877), p: 1058.13-17, bk: 16.2.27.
- 2 Strabo, Strabo: Geography Books 15-16, trans. Horace Leonard Jones, Loeb Classical Library 241 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1930), p: 275, bk: 16.2.27.
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