# Naturalis Historia 4.76

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 4. Latin.

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76] inde exspatiatur aequor rursusque in artum coit. laxitas Propontis appellatur, angustiae Thracius Bosporus, latitudine quingentorum passuum, qua Darius pater Xerxis copias ponte transvexit. tota ab Hellesponto longitudo CCXXXIX. dein vastum mare Pontus Euxinus, qui quondam Axenus, longe refugientes occupat terras magnoque litorum flexu retro curvatus in cornua ab iis utrimque porrigitur, ut sit plane arcus Scythici forma. medio flexu iungitur ostio Maeotii lacus. Cimmerius Bosporus id os vocatur,II quingentorum passuum latitudine.

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