Book 2
5.14
In its figure the habitable earth resembles a chlamys, or soldier’s cloak, the greatest breadth of which would be indicated by a line drawn in the direction of the Nile, commencing from the parallel of the Cinnamon Country, and the Island of the Egyptian Exiles, and terminating at the parallel of Ierna; and its length by a line drawn from the west at right angles to the former, passing by the Pillars of Hercules and the Strait of Sicily to Rhodes and the Gulf of Issus,The Gulf of Aïas. then proceeding along the chain of the Taurus, which divides Asia, and terminating in the Eastern Ocean,The Bay of Bengal. between India and the Scythians dwelling beyond Bactriana.
