Book 11
7.1
THE nomades, or wandering tribes, who live on the left side of the coast on entering the Caspian Sea, are called by the moderns Dahae, and surnamed Parni.C. viii. § 2. Then there intervenes a desert tract, which is followed by Hyrcania; here the Caspian spreads like a deep sea till it approaches the Median and Armenian mountains. The shape of these hills at the foot is lunated.At ubi coepit in latitudinem pandi lunatis obliquatur cornibus Pliny, N. H. Their extremities terminate at the sea, and form the recess of the bay.
