Book 1
3.22
We must now return to the point whence we digressed. Herodotus having observed that there could be no such people as Hyperborean, inasmuch as there were no Hypernotii,By Hyperboreans are meant people who dwelt beyond the point from whence the north wind proceeded: Hypernotii therefore should be those who lived beyond the point of the procession of the south wind. The remark of Herodotus will be found, lib. iv. § 36. It is simply this: Supposing Hyperboreans, there ought likewise to be Hypernotii. Eratosthenes calls this argument ridiculous, and compares it to the sophism, that there are no epichaerekaki,Those who exult over the misfortunes of their neighbours. inasmuch as there are no epichaeragathi;Those who rejoice in others’ prosperity. [adding] perhaps there are Hypernotii; since at all events in Ethiopia Notus does not blow, although lower down it does.
