Kitap 34
10
If we compare the mountains in Greece—Taygetus,The four passes of the Alps,—the Cornice, Argentière, Genèvre (Val d'Aosta), Cenis. Lycaeus, Parnassus, Olympus, Pelion, Ossa, and those in Thrace—Haemus, Rhodope, Dunax, with the Alps, we may state the case thus. Each one of the former may be ascended or skirted by an active traveller in a single day; but no one could ascend the Alps even in five days, the distance from the plain being two thousand two hundred stades. Lago di Garda, Lago di Como.Lago Maggiore. There are but four passes, one through Liguria, nearest the Tyrrhenian Sea; the next through the Taurini, which was the one used by Hannibal; the third through the Salassi; and the last by the Rhaeti,Varro (Serv. ad Æn. 10, 13) adds a fifth by the Graian Alps, i.e. Little St. Bernard. all of them excessively precipitous. There are several lakes in the mountains, three of great size, the Benacus, five hundred by one hundred and thirty stades, out of which the Mincius flows; the Larius, four hundred stades long, and somewhat narrower than the Benacus, discharging the Addua; and thirdly, the Verbanus, about three hundred stades by thirty, from which comes a considerable river—the Ticinus. All these three rivers discharge themselves into the Padus. . . .
11
There is an excellent wine made at Capua called Anadendrites, or the wine of the climbing vine, with which no other can compare. . . .
11
The length of the coast from Iapygia to theCapuan wine. straits is three thousand stades by land, and it is washed by the Sicilian sea. Sailing, however, the distance is less than five hundred stades. . . .
11
The largest distance of the Etrurian coast is from Luna to Ostia, a distance of one thousand three hundred and thirty stades.Strabo corrects this, saying that the distance is 3000 stades. . . .
11
The island Lemnos is called Aethaleia. . . .
