Strabo
Americannoun
noun
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Greek philosophers like Strabo made contemporary accounts of the Gaul tribes' penchant for heads.
From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2018
Greek historian Strabo wrote that the broken body of the statue, and the stone feet and plinth, remained exactly where they had fallen for over eight centuries.
From Salon • Aug. 20, 2017
According to the Greek geographer Strabo, while the Greeks build beautiful cities, the Romans focus on “paving their roads, constructing aqueducts, and sewers.”
From Nature • Mar. 15, 2016
In the 1st Century BC the geographer Strabo wrote that people in Spain kept poison handy in case of need, as spies are supposed to do - and this he called "toxicon" alone.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2015
Eratosthenes, in a lost work quoted by the Roman-era geographer Strabo, wrote that of the kingdom of the pharaohs “there was a common saying: ‘The way to Egypt is long and vexatious.’..
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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