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Book I Chapter 40 · I.40.1.20–I.40.1.22
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Πρός γε μὴν ταῖς ἀνασχέσεσι τοῦ ἡλίου πάλιν εἰσρέων ὁ Ὠκεανός, τὸν Ἰνδικόν τε καὶ Περσικὸν διανοίξας κόλπον, ἀναφαίνει τὴν Ἐρυθρὰν θάλασσαν διειληφώς. Ἐπὶ θάτερον δὲ κέρας καταστενοῦται καὶ ἐπιμήκη διιὼν εἰς αὐχένα πάλιν ἀνευρύνεται, τὴν Ὑρκανίαν τε καὶ Κασπίαν ὁρίζων· τὸ δὲ ὑπὲρ ταύτην βαθὺν ἔχει τὸν ὑπὲρ τὴν Μαιῶτιν λίμνην τόπον.
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Εἶτα κατ᾽ ὀλίγον τι ὑπὲρ τοὺς Σκύθας τε καὶ Κελτικὴν σφίγγει τὴν οἰκουμένην, πρός τε τὸν Γαλατικὸν καλούμενον κόλπον καὶ τὰς προειρημένας στήλας Ἡρακλείους, ὧν ἔξω περιρρεῖ τὴν γῆν ὁ Ὠκεανός.
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Ἐν τούτῳ γε μὴν νῆσοι μεγάλαι τυγχάνουσιν, αἱ [τε] δύο Βρετανικαὶ λεγόμεναι [καὶ] Ἄλβιον καὶ Ἰέρνη, τῶν προϊστορουμένων μείζους, ὑπὲρ Κελτοὺς κείμεναι· τούτων δὲ ἐλάττους ἥ τε Ταπροβάνη πέραν Ἰνδῶν, λοξὴ πρὸς τὴν οἰκουμένην, καὶ ἡ Φοβέα [Εὔβοια] καλουμένη, κατὰ τὸν Ἀράβιον κειμένη κόλπον. Οὐκ ὀλίγαι τε ἄλλαι μικραὶ περὶ τὰς Βρετανικὰς καὶ τὴν Ἰβηρίαν κύκλῳ περιστεφανοῦσι τὴν οἰκουμένην ταύτην, ἣν δὴ νῆσον εἰρήκαμεν.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 40
p. 77720 · Eastern inlets of Ocean
Again, toward the rising of the sun, Ocean flows inward, opening the Indian and Persian gulfs and enclosing the expanse known as the Erythraean Sea. At another arm it narrows, passes into a long neck, and widens again, marking out the Hyrcanian and Caspian Sea. The region beyond this extends far inland, beyond Lake Maeotis.1006
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Then, little by little, beyond the Scythians and the Celtic country, it closes around the inhabited world toward the gulf called Gallic and the Pillars of Heracles already mentioned, outside which Ocean flows around the land.
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In Ocean there are great islands: [and] the two called British, [and] Albion and Ierne, larger than those previously described and lying beyond the Celts. Smaller than these are Taprobane, beyond the Indians and at an angle to the inhabited world, and the island called Phobea [Euboea], situated by the Arabian Gulf.1007 Many other small islands around the British islands and Iberia form a circular crown about this inhabited world, which we have called an island.
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