Book 7
frag.58
Corpili: certain of the Thracians. Strabo, Seventh Book; their country is called Corpilice; for Aenus lies in what was formerly called Apsinthis, though now called Corpilice.
frag.59
Tetrachoritae: the Bessi, according to Strabo in his Seventh Book. These are also called Tetracomi.
frag.60
For hesc. Strabo. says in the Seventh Book of the same workThat is, his Geography, previously mentioned. that he knew Poseidonius, the Stoic philosopher.This fragment and its context, as found in Athenaeus 14.75, requires special investigation. If the text of Atheaeus is right, he misquotes Strabo at least once. For the latter “in his Third Book” (3. 4. 11) speaks of “Cantabrian,” not “Cibyric,” hams. Again, the reading of the Greek text for “he” (in “he knew”) present a grammatical problem; Kaibel makes “he” refer to Pompey, but it must in that context, refer to Strabo. And did Strabo really say that he knew Poseidonius? Or could he have known him? (See 16. 2. 10, where Strabo speaks of Poseidonius as “most widely-learned of all philosophers of out times.”) Moreover, how could Poseidonius have been an associate of that Scipio (Africanus Minor) who captured Carthage? Is not Atheaeus confusing Poseidonius with Polybius, who was with Scipio at the destruction of Carthage? Or is he not confusing Poseidonius with Panaetius (see Casaubon-Schweighaüser, Animadv. in Athenaeum, Vol. VII, p. 645)?
