386

INDEX,

Tibboos, 96, 105

Tiberius, the emperor, his campaigns
in Germany, 233; in Rhaetia,

*34

Tides, discovery of their movement
by the Greeks, 192; influence of
the moon on them first reported to
the Greeks by Pytheas, 155; that
of the sun and moon conjointly
noticed by Posidonius, 193
Tigranoccrta, position of, 219
Tigris, river, its course known to
Herodotus, 90; its sources in Ar-
menia, 114, i [6; crossed by Alex-
ander, 129; its upper course de-
scribed by Strabo and Pliny, 267
foil.; its supposed disappearance,
270; its supposed common source
with the Euphrates, 271; account
of by Dionysius Periegetes, 285
Timaeus, 210
Timavus, river, remarks of Polybius

on, 210

Timosthenes, on the winds, 194
Tin, largely used in the Homeric
times, 35 ; not brought from India,
but from Spain and Britain, 35; by
way of Gades, 36; through Gaul,
36; Pytheas' voyage connected
with, 154, 156

Tinolus, Mt, a look-out place, 322
Tobogganing, in the Caucasus, 316;

practised by the Cimbri, 316
Torone, 49

Tracts of (Africa according to Hero-
dotus, 95

Trade^outes, primitive, evidence of
in Homer, 31, 35; from the Ural
mountains to the Sea of Azov, 87;
from Upper Asia to Sin ope, 91;
from India to Europe by the Oxus,
134, 266; through Pannonia, 32;
through Gaul, 32, 154; the .direct
trade-route to India, 270; from
China to India, 281; from the
Euphrates to Northern China, 352
Trade-winds, 103

Trajan, his conquest of Dacia, 290;
of Mesopotamia, 293; his bridge
over the Danube, 291
Transference to towns of names of

tribes in Gaul, 229
Trapezus, its commercial importance,
47; visited by Xenophon, 117; a
Roman military station, 299
Travel, advantage of to the geo-
grapher! a10, 241

Travellers' tales, how far trustworthy,
17
Trees, imported from abroad into
Greece, 39, 40; Pausanias' descrip-
tion of, 357
Trisanton, river, 348
Tritonis, Lake, 94, 121
Troglodyte Actliiopians, 96, 204
Tyre, meaning of the name, 4; sieges
of, 127; captured by Alexander,
127
Ulysses, mythical character of his
wanderings, 27
Umbrians, known to Herodotus, 84
Ural mountains, gold of the, 87
Ushant, 156
Utica, early foundation of by the
Phoenicians, 6
Uxisama, island, visited by Pytheas,
I5<>
Van, Lake of, 114, nfi, 257, 268,
269
Varar, esluary, 350
Vegetation, of India, 139; of Greece,
as described by Theophraslus, 200;
by Pausanias, 357; Strabo's interest
in, 246
Vcncti, the, in Hrittany, 36; Caesar's
description of their country, 230
Verde, Cape, 106
Vervedrum, prom., 350
Via Aurelia, 299; Acmilia. Scauri,
300; Julia, 300; Flaminia, 300;
Aeinilia, 3015 Appia, 304? Eg-
natia, 305; Candavia, 305
Viadrus, river (Oder), first mentioned
by Ptolemy, 289
Victoria and Albert Nyanza Lakes,
perhaps referred to by Ptolemy,
35?
Virgil, on the zones, 180; on moun-
tain scenery, 3r7
Viroconium, 303
Vistula, 289
Volcanic phenomena, in Greece, n,
185; in Asia Minor, 6"r; specula-
tions on, 197—200; at Methana,
198; in the Lipari Islands, 199;
at Thera, 200; extensively noticed
by Strabo, 254
Volga, the, first mentioned by Ptolemy,
35*
Voyages, of Sataspes, 103; of Hanno,
104; of Himilco, 109; of Nearchus,
141; of Pytheas, 152; of Eudoxus