"The Aegean sea washes Greece on two sides: first, the side that faces towards the east and stretches from Sunium, tow…"

"There remain of Europe, first, Macedonia and the part of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzant…"

"What is now called Macedonia was in earlier times called Emathia. And it took its present name from Macedon, one of i…"

"has produced famous men: in early times, Pittacus, one of the Seven Wise Men; and the poet Alcaeus, and his brother A…"

"The Sidonians according to tradition, are skilled in many beautiful arts, as the poet [Homer] also points out, and be…"

"An Egyptian priest named Moses, who possessed a portion of the country called the Lower Egypt, being dissatisfied wit…"

"Three classes inhabited the city (Alexandria in Egypt): first the Aegyptian or native stock of people, who were quick…"

"Strabo, traveling in North Africa ... [did not find] its women in the army but found that they ruled the country poli…"

"Strabo... enters largely, in the Second Book of his Geography, into the opinions of Eratosthenes and other Greeks on …"

"In another place, this learned geographer [Strabo], in alluding to the tradition that Sicily had been separated by a …"