Strabo
historical figure · 5 works · 14 mentions · 22 anchored passages · author page · cited 8 times in 5 works
استرابون · Strabon · the traveller Strabo · الرحالة استرابون
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The Rights of War and Peace
Greek geographer listed among sources on nations practicing circumcision.
Wherefore there is reason to believe that the numerous nations, who, besides the Israelites, practiced circumcision, and who are mentioned by Herodotus, Strabo, Philo, Justin, Origen, Clemens, Alexandrinus, Epiphanius, and Jerom, were descended from Ishmael, Esau, or the posterity of Keturah.
Nice in Italy, according to Strabo, was adjudged to the people of Marseilles;
So it may happen, that many states may be connected together by the closest federal union, which Strabo, in more places than one calls a system, and yet each retain the condition of a perfect, individual state, which has been observed by Aristotle and others in different parts of their writings.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Greek geographer cited for testimony on Alexandrian merchant voyages to India.
Iam suo tempore Strabo Alexandrinorum mercatorum classem ex Arabico sinu, ut Aethiopiae ultima, ita et Indiae, petiisse testatur, cum olim paucis navibus id auderetur.
Strabo says that in his own time a fleet of Alexandrian merchantmen set sail from the Arabian gulf for the distant lands of Ethiopia and India, although few ships had ever before attempted that voyage.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The Greek geographer named among the classical authorities whose mention of the extinct tribes vindicated the Arab legends.
Then it became clear to them that they are not devoid of established fact, from what they found of mention of them in the books of the historians of the Greeks or of their ancient geographers, such as Strabo and Ptolemy and others.
so they held that it prevailed before Islam, and especially after they had read what the traveller Strabo said about marriage among the Arabs in his age, that is, about the first century before the Nativity.
but the matter is not so, for this tale points only to the brothers' sharing in marriage with one woman, and not the people of the clan all together, so that it indicates the existence of the family and its independence — which is contrary to the conditions of mother-right.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Classical geographer cited as another credible ancient source on the Celts.
Let me add that in Cæsar’s account of the Druids there is not a word which does not appear to me perfectly credible.
De Anima
Geographer and historian cited as the source of the Mithridates dream report.
Mithridates too, from a dream, I learn from Strabo, took possession of Pontus;