# Naturalis Historia 4.91

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

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91] nec licet dubitare de genete ea: tot auctores produnt frugum primitias solitos Delum mittere Apollini, quem praecipue colunt. virgines ferebant eas, hospitiis gentium per annos aliquot venerabiles, donec violata fide in proximis accolarum finibus deponere sacra ea instituere iique ad conterminos deferre atque ita Delum usque. mox et hoc ipsum exolevit. Sarmatiae, Scythiae, Tauricae omnisque a Borysthene amne tractus longitudo DCCCCLXXX, latitudo DCCXVI a M. Agrippa tradita est. ego incertam in hac terrarum parte mensuram arbitror.,BR> Verum instituto ordine reliqua huius sinus dicantur, et maria quidem eius nuncupavimus.

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