# Naturalis Historia 5.39-40

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 5.39 to 5.40. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/pliny-the-elder/naturalis-historia/5.39

39] Quae sequitur regio Mareotis Libya appellatur, Aegypto contermina. tenent Marmarides, Adyrmachidae, dein Mareotae. mensura a Catabathmo Paraetonium LXXXVI. in eo tractu intus Apis interest, nobilis religione Aegypti locus. ab eo Paraetonium LXX:D, inde Alexandriam CC. latitudo CLXVIIII est. Eratosthenes a Cyrenis Alexandriam terrestri itinere DXXV prodit. 40] Agrippa totius Africae a mari Atlantico cum inferiore Aegypto |XXX|:XXXX longitudinem, Polybius et Eratosthenes, diligentissimi existimati, ab oceano ad Carthaginem magnam |XI|, ab ea Canopum, Nili proximum ostium, |XVI|&middot LXXXVIII fecerunt, Isidorus a Tingi Canopum |XXXVI|:XCVII, Artemidorus XL M minus quam Isidorus.

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