Stelle ...; (Geography (-20 - 24), Strabo, Geography, 2.5.8, ed. and trans. Horace Leonard Jones, The Geography of Strabo, vol. 1 (London, 1917), 443.) [5343]

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Keywords	Region: Britannia, [wurzel: Brittanni] Region: Ierne, [wurzel: ] Keyword: limes, [wurzel: limit] Keyword: saevitia, [wurzel: saevit] Region: septentriones, [wurzel: septentrion]
ID	5343
Text	Geographica (-20 - 24) Strabo
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Translation	For modern scientific writers are not able to speak of any country north of Ierne, which lies to the north of Britain and near thereto, and is the home of men who are complete savages and lead a miserable existence because of the cold; and therefore, in my opinion, the northern limit of our inhabited world is to be placed there …
Quotation source	Strabo, Geography, 2.5.8, ed. and trans. Horace Leonard Jones, The Geography of Strabo, vol. 1 (London, 1917), 443.
Associated use case(s)	Distant in Space and Habit? Differing Perceptions of Ireland in the Middle Ages
Spatial Coverage Objects	<QuerySet [<Stelle: ...; (Geography (-20 - 24), Strabo, Geography, 2.5.8, ed. and trans. Horace Leonard Jones, The Geography of Strabo, vol. 1 (London, 1917), 443.) [5343]>]> - Ierne, [wurzel: ]
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