# Naturalis Historia 3.5

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 3. Latin.

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5] Primum ergo de Europa, altrice victoris omnium gentium populi longeque terrarum pulcherrima, quam plerique merito non tertiam portionem fecere, verum aequam, in duas partes ab amne Tanai ad Gaditanum fretum universo orbe diviso. oceanus a quo dictum est spatio Atlanticum mare infundens et avido meatu terras, quaecunque venientem expavere, demergens resistentes quoque flexuoso litorum anfractu lambit, Europam vel maxime recessibus crebris excavans, sed in quattuor praecipuos sinus, quorum primus a Calpe Hispaniae extimo, ut dictum est, monte Locros, Bruttium usque promunturium, inmenso ambitu flectitur.

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