# Naturalis Historia 5.46-47

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 5.46 to 5.47. Latin.

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46] Blemmyes traduntur capita abesse, ore et oculis pectore adfixis; Satyris praeter figuram nihil moris humani; Aegipanum qualis vulgo pingitur forma; Himantopodes loripedes quidam, quibus serpendo ingredi natura sit; Pharusi, quondam Persae, comites fuisse Herculis ad Hesperidas tendentis. nec de Africa plura quae memorentur occurrunt. 47] Adhaeret Asia, quam patere a Canopico ostio ad Ponti ostio Timosthenes |XXVI|:XXXVIII p. tradit, ab ore autem Ponti ad os Maeotis Eratosthenes |XV|:XLV, universam vero cum Aegypto ad Tanain Artemidorus et Isidorus |L|:XIII:DCCL. maria eius conplura ab accolis traxere nomina; quare simul indicabuntur.(Ptolemy,Geog. 4.5)

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