# Naturalis Historia 4.88

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

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88] A Taphris per continentem introrsus tenent Auchetae, apud quos Hypanis oritur, Neuroe, apud quos Borysthenes, Geloni, Thyssagetae, Budini, Basilidae et careuleo capillo Agathyrsi. super eos Nomades, deinde Anthropophagi, a Buce vero super Maeotim Sauromatae et Essedones. at per oram ad Tanain usque ad Maeotae, a quibus lacus nomen accepit, ultimique a tergo eorum Arimaspi. mox Ripaei montes et adsiduo nivis casu pinnarum similitudine Pterophoros appellata regio, pars mundi damnata a rerum natura et densa mersa caligine neque in alio quam rigoris opere gelidisque Aquilonis conceptaculis.

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