# Naturalis Historia 5.65

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

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65] Ultra Pelusiacum Arabia est, ad Rubrum mare pertinens et odoriferam illam ac divitem terram et Beatae cognomine inclutam. haec Catabanum et Esbonitarum et Scenitarum Arabum vocatur, sterilis, praeterquam ubi Syriae confinia attingit, nec nisi Casio monte nobilis. his Arabes iunguntur, ab oriente Canchlei, a meridie Cedrei, qui deinde ambo Nabataeis. Heroopoliticus vocatur alterque Laeaniticus vel Aelaniticus sinus Rubri maris in Aegyptum vergentis,CL intervallo inter duo oppida, Laeana et in nostro mari Gazam. Agrippa a Pelusio Arsinoen, Rubri maris oppidum, per deserta CXXV p. tradit: tam parvo distat ibi tanta rerum naturae diversitas.

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