# Naturalis Historia 4.9

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

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9] Peloponnesus, Apia antea appellata et Pelasgia, paeninsula haut ulli terrae nobilitate postferenda, inter duo maria Aegeum et Ionium, platani folio similis propter angulosos recessus, circuitu DLXIII p. colligit auctore Isidoro; eadem per sinus paene tantundem adicit. angustiae, unde procedit, Isthmos appellatur. in eo loca inrumpentia e diverso quae dicta sunt maria a septentrione et exortu eius omnem ibi latitudinem vorant, donec contrario incursu tantorum aequorum V milium passuum intervallo exesis utrimque lateribus angusta cervice Peloponnesum contineat Hellas.

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