Book 2
5.31
From the Don and the MaeotisThe Sea of Azof. commences [Asia] on this side the Taurus; beyond these is [Asia] beyond the Taurus. For since this continent is divided into two by the chain of the Taurus, which extends from the extremities of Pamphylia to the shores of the Eastern Sea,The Bay of Bengal. inhabited by the Indians and neighbouring Scythians, the Greeks naturally called that part of the continent situated north of these mountains [Asia] on this side the Taurus, and that on the south [Asia] beyond the Taurus. Consequently the parts adjacent to the Maeotis and Don are on this side the Taurus. The first of these is the territory between the Caspian Sea and the Euxine, bounded on one sideThe North. by the Don, the Exterior Ocean,The Northern Ocean. and the Sea of Hyrcania; on the otherThe south. by the Isthmus where it is narrowest from the recess of the Euxine to the Caspian.
