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INDEX.

Elephant-hunting on the Astaboras,
146; in India, 152

Embassies from the West to Alex-
ander, 141; from Taprobane to
Rome, 273

Emodus, mountains, 149; meaning
of the name, 149

Empedocles, story of his death on
Etna, 320

Emporiae, 55

Eneti, tribe, known to Herodotus, 84

Ephorus, the forerunner of Polybius,
206; his advanced criticisms, 207

Epithets, local, accuracy of in Homer,

n

Erannaboas, river, 150

Eratosthenes, on the local epithets in
Homer, 23; on the inundation of
the Nile, 63; his twofold division
of the world, 67; his measurement
of the earth, 170—72; of the habit-
able world, 172—4; his parallels
of latitude, 174, 175, 181; his meri-
dians of longitude, 177, 178, 181;
on the zones, 180; his map of the
world, 180; his Sphragidcs, 181;
his geographical treatise, 182

Eridanus, river, etymology of the
name of, 34; disbelieved in by
Herodotus, 80

Ermine Street, 303

Erythraean Sea, 80; Agatharchides'
work on, 185

Erzeroum, 117

Essenes, the, described by Pliny, 266

Etna, ascended by Hadrian, 314;
Senega's notice of, 319; Strabo's
description of the summit of, 319

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Etymander, river, 133

Eudoxus of Cnidos, his astronomical

observations, 165

Eudoxus of Cyzicus, his voyages, 189
Euphrates, its course known to He-
rodotus, 90; its sources in Armenia,
114, 117; its stream crossed by
Xenophon, 116; by Alexander,
128; described by Strabo, 257;
its supposed common source with
the Tigris, 271; Roman military
frontier along, 298; crossings at
Thapsacus and the Zeugma, 305
Euripus, currents of the, ir, 185, 192
Europe, boundaries of, 67—9; mean-
ing of the name of, 69; where first
mentioned, 69; Herodotus' know-
ledge of; 83, 84

Euxine, Greek colonies on the, 46;
dangers and attractions of, 46
Evans, Mr A. J., 32
Exampaeus, in Scythia, 85
Expeditions, before the time of Alex-
ander, 98 foil.; of Alexander, 122
foil.; of Pylheas, 152 foil.; of Poly-
bius on the African coast, 209; of
Agricola to the Orcades, 288; of
Suetonius Paullinus to Central
Africa, 291; of Nero to the Nile,
291; of Septimius Flaccus to Ae-
thiopia, 353; of Julius Maternus
to the Soudan, 353
Fartak, Cape, 276
Fauna, observation of, 201
Ferro, used as a prime meridian, 342
Flinders PcLrie, Mr, discovery of
Naucratis by, 57
Flora, observation of hy Thcophrastus
and others, 200; by Strabo, 246
Fortunatae Insulae, 226; Ptolemy's
prime meridian, 342
Fosse Way, 303
Fountains, described by Pausanias,
355
Freshfield, Mr D. W., on the cram-
pons of the Caucasus, 316
Friesland, amber from the coast of,
163.' J04
Frontier fortresses, Roman, 294;
chiefly organised by Hadrian, 295
Codes, meaning of the name, 7;
noticed by Herodotus, 84; its
immense commerce, 253
Gaetulia, 95
Galicia, tin mines of, 35, 37
Gambia River, 106
Ganges, the, known to Megasthenes,
149; believed to flow into the
Eastern Ocean, 250, 286; the error
corrected, 281; and repeated, 367
Garamantes, the, 96, 353; expedition
of Balbus against, 223
Gardner, Prof. P., 57; on Pausanias1
veracity, 362 '
Gaugamela, 129
Gaul, early trade-route through, 32;
the Roman province in, 228;
Caesar's conquest of, 228 foil; his
description of, 229; Roman roads
in, 236, 300, 302; completeness of
the river-system in, 253
Gauls, the, described by Posidonius,
205