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 370 plint's natueal histoet. [Book IV.- follow, IS 1168 miles. But the better ascertained, though greater length, is that taken from the Alps through the Camp of the Legions^ in Germany, in a north-westerly direction, to the mouth of the Ehine, being 1543 miles. We shall now have to speak of Africa and Asia. Stjmmaet. — Towns and nations mentioned * * * *. Noted rivers * * * *. l^'amous mountains * * * *. Islands * * * *. People or towns no longer in existence * * * *, Kemarkable events, narratives, and observations * * * *. EoMAN AuTHOES QUOTED. — Cato the Censor^, M. Yarro^ M. Agrippa^, the late Emperor Augustus^, Varro Atacinus®, Cornelius Nepos'', Hyginus^, L. Vetus®, Mela Pomponius^'*, Licinius Mucianus^ Pabricius Tuscus^^, Ateius Capito^^ Ateius the Philologist^^. PoEEiGN AuTKOES QUOTED. — Polybius^^, Hecatseus ^^, ^ The present Santen in the Duchy of Cleves. 2 See end of B, iij. * See end of B. ii. ■* See end of B. iii. 8 See end of B. iii. ^ See end of B. iii. ^^ See end of B. iii. 11 See end of B. ii. i^ See end of B. iii. 13 See end of B. iii. 1^ Ateius, surnamed Prcetextatus, and also Philologus, which last name he assumed to indicate his learning, was born at Athens, and was one of the most celebrated grammarians of Rome, in the latter part of the first century B.C. He was originally a freedman of the jurist Ateius Capito, by whom he was described as " a rhetorician among grammarians, and a grammarian among rhetoricians." He was on terms of intimacy with Sallust the historian, and Asinius PoUio. It is supposed that he assisted Sallust in the compilation of liis history ; but to what extent is not known. But few of his numerous commentaries were extant even in the time of Suetonius. 1" A native of Megalopolis in Arcadia, born about B.C. 204. He was trained probably in political knowledge and the mihtary art imder Philopcemen, and was sent as a prisoner to Eome, vfiilx others, to answer the charge of not aiding the Romans in their war against Perseus. Here, by great good fortune, he secured the finendship of Scipio Africanus, with whom he was present at the destruction of Car- thage. His history is one of the most valuable works that has come down to us from antiquity. i** Of Miletus, one of the earhest and most distinguished Greek his- torians and geographers. He hvcd about the 65th Olympiad, or B.C. 520. A few li-agments, quoted, are all that are left of liis historical and
 * See end of B. iii. ^ See end of B. iii. 7 See end of B. ii.