# Naturalis Historia 4.78

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

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78] M. Varro ad hunc modum metitur: ab ostio Ponti Apolloniam CLXXXVII:D p., Callatim tantundem, ad ostium Histri CXXV, ad Borysthenem CCL, Cherronesum Heracleotarum oppidum CCCLXXV p., ad Panticapaeum, quod aliqui Bosporum vocant, extremum in Europae ora,CCXII:D, quae summa efficit |XIII|:XXXVII:D. Agrippa a Byzantio ad flumen Histrum DLX, inde Panticapaeum DCXXXVIII. lacus ipse Maeotis, Tanain amnem ex Ripaeis montibus defluentem accipiens, novissimum inter Europam Asiamque finem, |XIIII|:VI circuitu patere traditur, ab aliis |XI|:XXV. ab ostio eius ad Tanais ostium derecto cursu CCLXXV esse constat. accolae sinus eius in mentione Thraciae dicti sunt Histropolin usque. inde ostia Histri.

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