# Naturalis Historia 4.1-3

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 4.1 to 4.3. Latin.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 1] Tertius Europae sinus Acrocerauniis incipit montibus, finitur Hellesponto, amplectitur praeter minores sinus |XIX|:XXV passuum. in eo Epirus, Acarnania, Aetolia, Phocis, Locris, Achaia, Messenia, Laconica, Argolis, Megaris, Attice, Boeotia iterumque ab ealio mari eadem Macedonia, Thracia. omnis Graeciae fabulositas sicut et litterarum claritas ex hoc primum sinu effulsit, quapropter paululum in eo conmorabimur. 2] Epiros in universum appellata a Cerauniis incipit montibus. in ea primi Chaones, a quibus Chaonia, dein Thesproti, Antigonenses, locus Aornos et pestifera avibus exhalatio, Cestrini, Perrhaebi, quorum mons Pindus, Cassopaei, Dryopes, Selloe, Hellopes, Molossi, apud quos Dodonaei Iovis templum oraculo inlustre, Talarus mons, centum fontibus circa radices Theopompo celebratus. 3] Epiros ipsa, ad Magnesiam Macedoniamque tendens, a tergo suo Dassaretas supra dictos, liberam gentem, mox feram Dardanos habet. Dardanis laevo Triballi praetendentur latere et Moesicae gentes, a fronte iunguntur Maedi ac Denselatae, quibus Threces ad Pontum usque pertinentes. ita succincta Rhodopes, mox et Haemi, vallatur excelsitas.

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