Geography
- "To judge from what is known from journeys by sea and land, the length is much greather than the width; indeed the distance from the pillars of Heracles to India exceeds that from Aethiopia to Lake Maeotis and the farthest part of Scythia is the proportion of more than five to three" (362b19-23)
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