Book 11
12.5
According to the way in which I place them, then, these tribes would be towards the north, since they are inside the Taurus, but Eratosthenes, who is the author of the division of Asia into “Southern Asia” and “Northern Asia” and into “Sphragides,”See 2. 1. 35 and note on “Sphragides.” as he calls them, calling some of the “sphragides” “northern” and others “southern,” represents the Caspian Gates as a boundary between the two “climata”See Vol. I., p. 22, footnote 2. reasonably, therefore, he might represent as “southern” the parts that are more southerly, stretching towards the east,“Stretching towards the east,” seems to be an interpolation. than the Caspian Gates, among which are Media and Armenia, and the more northerly as “northern,” since this is the case no matter what distribution into parts is otherwise made of the country. But perhaps it did not strike Eratosthenes that no part either of Armenia or of Media lay outside the Taurus.
