Kitap 2
5.11
In the same way, the generals perform every thing, nevertheless, they are not present every where, but most of their success depends on others, since they are obliged to trust to messengers, and issue their commands in accordance with the reports of others. To pretend that those only can know who have themselves seen, is to deprive hearing of all confidence, which, after all, is a better servant of knowledge than sight itself.
5.12
Writers of the present day can describe with more certainty [than formerly] the Britons, the Germans, and the dwellers on either side of the Danube, the Getae,The Getae occupied a portion of present Moldavia; the Tyrigetae were those of the Getae who dwelt along the banks of the Tyras or Dniester. the Tyrigetae, the Bastarnae,The Bastarnae occupied the south and eastern portions of Poland. the tribes dwelling by the Caucasus, such as the Albanians and Iberians.The Georgians of the present day. We are besides possessed of a description of HyrcaniaCorcan. and Bactriana in the Histories of Parthia written by such men as Apollodorus of Artemita,The precise time when this writer lived is unknown. The work here referred to is also mentioned by Athenaeus, xv. p. 682. who leave detailed the boundaries [of those countries] with greater accuracy than other geographers.
