Book 2
4.2
This argument, although even Dicaearchus would not believe him, is ridiculous, just as if Eratosthenes ought to take for his standard a writer whom Polybius is himself for ever complaining of.Every one will observe, that this criticism of Strabo is entirely gratuitous and captious. Polybius cites Dicaearchus as a most credulous writer, but states that even he would not believe Pytheas: how then could so distinguished a writer as Eratosthenes put faith in his nonsense?
