# Naturalis Historia 5.98-99

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 5.98 to 5.99. Latin.

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98] torquetur itaque collisus inter haec claustra et tamen victor flexuosus evadit usque ad cognata Ripaeorum montium iuga, numerosis nominibus et novis, quacumque incedit, insignis: Imaus prima parte dictus, mox Emodus, Paropanisus, Circius, Cambades, Pariades, Choatras, Oreges, Oroandes, Niphates, Taurus atque, ubi se quoque exuperat, Caucasus, ubi brachia emittit subinde temptanti maria similis, Sarpedon, Coracesius, Cragus, iterumque Taurus, 99] etiam ubi dehiscit seque populis aperit, Portarum tamen nomine unitatem sibi vindicans, quae aliubi Armeniae, aliubi Caspiae, aliubi Ciliciae vocantur. quin etiam confractus, effugiens quoque maria, plurimis se gentium nominibus hinc et illinc implet, a dextra Hyrcanius, Caspius, a laeva Parihedrus, Moschicus, Amazonicus, Coraxicus, Scythicus appellatus, in universum vero Graece Ceraunius.

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