Book 10
4.2
At present we are to speak first of Crete. According to Eudoxus, it is situated in the Aegaean sea, but he ought not to have described its situation in that manner, but have said, that it lies between Cyrenaica and the part of Greece comprehended between Sunium and Laconia,τν͂ς?̔ελλάδος τν͂ς ἀπὸ σουνίου μέχοͅι λακωνικῆς. extending in length in the direction from west to east, and parallel to these countries;Gossellin observes that the false position assigned to these countries, and the contradiction perceptible in the measures in stadia, given by Strabo, and above all the impossibility of reconciling them upon one given plan, is a proof that the author consulted different histories, and different maps, in which the distances were laid down in stadia differing in length. that it is washed on the north by the Aegaean and Cretan seas, and on the south by the African, which joins the Egyptian sea.
