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Book I Chapter 40 · I.40.1.25–I.40.1.26
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Λιβύη δὲ τὸ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀραβικοῦ ἰσθμοῦ ἕως Ἡρακλείων στηλῶν· οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ Νείλου φασὶν ἕως ἐκείνων. Τὴν δὲ Αἴγυπτον ὑπὸ τῶν τοῦ Νείλου στομάτων περιεχομένην οἱ μὲν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ, οἱ δὲ τῇ Λιβύῃ προσάπτουσι· καὶ τὰς νήσους οἱ μὲν ἐξαιρέτους ποιοῦσιν, οἱ δὲ [ἀεὶ] προσνέμουσιν ἀεὶ ταῖς γείτοσι μοίραις. Γῆς μὲν δὴ καὶ θαλάττης φύσιν καὶ θέσιν, ἣν καλεῖν εἰώθαμεν οἰκουμένην, τοιάνδε πῃ ἱστορήκαμεν.
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[κεφ. 4] Περὶ δὲ τῶν ἀξιολογωτάτων ἐν αὐτῇ καὶ ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς παθῶν νῦν λέγωμεν, αὐτὰ τὰ ἀναγκαῖα ἀνακεφαλαιούμενοι. Δύο γὰρ δή τινες ἀναθυμιάσεις ἀπ᾽ αὐτῆς ἀναφέρονται συνεχῶς εἰς τὸν ὑπὲρ ἡμᾶς ἀέρα λεπτομερεῖς καὶ ἀόρατοι παντάπασιν, ἔκ τε τῶν κατὰ τὰς ἠόνας τόπων ἔκ τε ποταμῶν τε καὶ ναμάτων ἀναφερόμεναι θεωροῦνται. Τούτων δ᾽ ἡ μέν ἐστι ξηρὰ καὶ καπνώδης, ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἀπορρέουσα· ἡ δὲ νοτερὰ καὶ ἀτμιδώδης, [καὶ] ἀπὸ τῆς ὑγρᾶς ἀναθυμιωμένη φύσεως.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 40
p. 78125 · Libya and Egypt
Libya is the region from the Arabian isthmus to the Pillars of Heracles; others say from the Nile to those pillars. Egypt, enclosed by the mouths of the Nile, is assigned by some to Asia and by others to Libya. Some place the islands in a separate category, while others [always] assign them in each case to the neighboring divisions.1010 Such, approximately, is our account of the nature and position of land and sea which we customarily call the inhabited world.
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[Chapter 4] Let us now discuss the most noteworthy occurrences within and above it, summarizing only the essentials. Two exhalations continually rise from it into the air above us, composed of fine particles and entirely invisible; they are observed rising from places along the shores, from rivers, and from streams.1011 One is dry and smoky, flowing from the earth; the other is moist and vaporous, [and] exhaled from the liquid element.
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