# Naturalis Historia 4.87

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

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87] restat longe validissimum in ipso Bospori introitu Panticapaeum Milesiorum, a Theodosia LXXXVII:D p., a Cimmerio vero oppido trans fretum sito MM:D, ut diximus, passuum. haec ibi latitudo Asiam ab Europa separat, eaque ipsa pedibus plerumque pervia glaciato freto. Bospori Cimmerii longitudo XII:D passuum. oppida habet Hermisium, Myrmecium et intus insulam Alopecen. per Maeotim autem ab extremo Isthmo, qui locus Taphrase vocatur, ad os Bospori CCLX longitudo colligit.

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