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Strabon, Geographia

Passus 4, 5, 2 (C 200): Μενάπιος [ethnic]

Date: AD 15 - 23 about?
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Status: ethnicon (group)
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Details: 'Their weather (sc. in Britannia) is more rainy than snowy; and on the days of clear sky fog prevails so long a time that throughout a whole day the sun is to be seen for only three or four hours round about midday. And this is the case also among the Morini and the Menapii and all the neighbours of the latter.'
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