# Naturalis Historia 5.80

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

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80] super eam mons eodem quo alius nomine, Casius. cuius excelsa altitudo quarta vigilia orientem per tenebras solem aspicit, brevi circumactu corporis diem noctemque pariter ostendens. ambitus ad cacumen XVIIII p. est, altitudo per derectum IIII. at in ora amnis Orontes, natus inter Libanum et Antilibanum iuxta Heliopolim. oppida Rhosos et a tergo Portae, quae Syria appellantur, intervallo Rhosiorum montium et Tauri. in ora oppidum Myriandros, mons Amanus, in quo oppidum Bomitae. ipse ab Syris Ciliciam separat.

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