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Strabon, Geographia

Passus 16, 4, 04 [f] (C 769): ἡ Τρωγλοδυτική [ethnic]

Date: AD 15 - 23 about?
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Status: (ge) + adj. congr.
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Details: 'And here, it is said, there is a pillar of Sesostris the Egyptian, which tells in hieroglyphics of his passage across the gulf; for manifestly he was the first man to subdue the countries of the Aethiopians and the Trogodytes; and he then crossed into Arabia, and thence invaded the whole of Asia.'
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