# Naturalis Historia 5.26

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

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26] Tertius sinus dividitur in geminos, duarum Syrtium vadoso ac reciproco mari diros. ad proximam, quae minor est, a Carthagine CCC Polybius tradit, ipsam centum milium passuum aditu, trecentorum ambitu. et terrae autem siderum observatione ad eam per deserta .... harenis perque serpentes iter est. excipiunt saltus repleti ferarum multitudine introrsus elephantorum solitudines, nox deserta vasta ultraque Garamantes, ab Augilis dierum XII itinere distantes.

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