# Naturalis Historia 5.141

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 5. Latin.

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141] Impetum deinde sumit Hellespontus, et mare incumbit, verticibus limitem fodiens, donec Asiam abrumpat Europae. promunturium id appellavimus Trapezam. ab eo X p. Abydum oppidum, ubi angustiae VII stadiorum. deinde Percote oppidum et Lampsacum, antea Pityusa dictum, Parium colonia quam Homerus Adrastiam appellavit, oppidum Priapos, amnis Aesepus, Zelia, Propontis — ita appellatur ubi se distat mare —, flumen Granicum, Artace portus ubi oppidum fuit.

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