# Naturalis Historia 5.36

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

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36] ultra eum deserta, Mathelgae oppidum Garamantum itemque Debris adfuso fonte a medio die ad mediam noctem aquis ferventibus totidemque horis ad medium diem rigentibus, clarissimumque Garama, caput Garamantum, omnia armis Romanis superata et a Cornelio Balbo triumphata, unius omnium curru externo et Quiritum iure donate; quippe Gadibus genito civitas Romana cum maiore Balbo patruo data est. et hoc mirum, supra dicta oppida ab eo capta auctores nostros prodidisse, ipsum in triumpho praeter Cidamum et Garamam omnium aliarum gentium urbiumque nomina ac simulacra duxisse, quae iere hoc ordine:

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