# Naturalis Historia 5.97

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

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97] Iunctum mare Lycium est gensque Lycia, unde vastus sinus. Taurus mons, ab Eois veniens litoribus, Chelidonio promunturio disterminat, inmensus ipse et innumerarum gentium arbiter, dextro latere septentrionalis, ubi primum ab Indico mari exsurgit, laevo meridianus et ad occasum tendens mediamque distrahens Asiam, nisi opprimenti terras occurrerent maria. resilit ergo ad septentriones flexusque inmensum iter quaerit, velut de industria rerum natura subinde aequora opponente, hinc Phoenicium, hinc Ponticum, illinc Caspium et Hyrcanium contraque Maeotium lacum.

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