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| ID |
4926 |
| Text |
Cosmographia Aethici Istri (700 - 730) Anonymous - Other |
| Quotation |
Porro Scitharum gentes in multam munitionem tam montanam quam et saltum refertissimam. Campestria frugum uberrima et usque ad oceanum Sericum porrectam atque mare Caspium, quod respicit occasum, exinde a meridie usque lacum Humericum bituminatum, a parte aquilonis magnum enim in gyrum dilatatum quasi stadiis centum a radicibus montibus Humerosis, ita ferventem velut candentem fornacem. |
| Translation |
ยง 67a, p. 149: Next, the Scythian races {are} completely crammed with fortifications from mountains as well as forests. The fields are very rich in grain, and extend as far as the Asiatic Ocean and the Caspian Sea, where it faces West, {and} from there southwards to bituminous Lake Humar, and spreading to the North in a great circle of about one-hundred stades to the base of the Humar Mountains, which are as hot as a glowing furnace. |
| Summary |
On the Scythian gentes. |
| Quotation source |
Cap. 6 (p. 174, lin. 8 - lin. 15) |
| Temporal Coverage |
600 - 730 |
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