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Book I Chapter 40 · I.40.1.23–I.40.1.24
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ἧς πλάτος μὲν κατὰ τὸ βαθύτατον τῆς ἠπείρου βραχὺ ἀποδέον τετρακισμυρίων σταδίων φασὶν οἱ εὖ γεωγραφήσαντες, μῆκος δὲ περὶ ἑπτακισμυρίους μάλιστα. διαιρεῖται δὲ εἴς τε Εὐρώπην καὶ Ἀσίαν καὶ Λιβύην.
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Εὐρώπη μὲν οὖν ἐστιν ἧς ὅρος κύκλῳ στῆλαί τε Ἡρακλέους καὶ μυχοὶ Πόντου, θάλαττά τε [καὶ] Ὑρκανία, καθ᾽ ἣν στενώτατος ἰσθμὸς εἰς τὸν Πόντον διήκει· τινὲς δὲ ἀντὶ τοῦ ἰσθμοῦ Τάναϊν ποταμὸν εἰρήκασιν. Ἀσία δ᾽ ἐστὶ τὸ ἀπὸ τοῦ εἰρημένου ἰσθμοῦ τοῦ τε Πόντου καὶ τῆς Ὑρκανίας θαλάττης μέχρι θατέρου ἰσθμοῦ, ὃς μεταξὺ κεῖται τοῦ τε Ἀραβικοῦ κόλπου καὶ τῆς ἔσω θαλάττης, περιεσχημένος ὑπό τε ταύτης καὶ τοῦ πέριξ ὠκεανοῦ· τινὲς δὲ ἀπὸ Τανάϊδος μέχρι Νείλου τίθενται ὅρον.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 40
p. 77923 · Dimensions and divisions
Writers skilled in geography say that its breadth, where the mainland extends deepest, is a little short of forty thousand stades, and its length approximately seventy thousand. It is divided into Europe, Asia, and Libya.1008
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Europe is the region bounded round by the Pillars of Heracles, the recesses of Pontus, and the [and] Hyrcanian Sea, from which a very narrow isthmus extends to Pontus. Some give the river Tanais instead of the isthmus. Asia is the region from the isthmus just mentioned, between Pontus and the Hyrcanian Sea, to the other isthmus lying between the Arabian Gulf and the inner sea, enclosed by that sea and the surrounding Ocean. Some set its boundary from the Tanais to the Nile.1009
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