# Naturalis Historia 5.85

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

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85] Arabiam inde laeva, Orroeon dictam regionem, trischoena mensura, dextraque Commagenen disterminat, pontis tamen, etiam ubi Taurum expugnat, patiens. apud Claudiopolim Cappadociae cursum ad occasum solis agit. primo hunc illic in pugna Taurus aufert victusque et abscisus sibimet alio modo vincit ac fractum expellit in meridiem. ita naturae dimicatio illa aequatur, hoc eunte quo vult, illo prohibente ire qua velit. a catarractis iterum navigatur.XL p. inde Commagenes caput Samosata.

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