Re: Celtic Jutland

--- In cybalist@..., "Joseph S Crary" <pva@...> wrote:

> Sources...
>
> Actually, I believe Pliny provides the name Basiliam
>
> PLINI SECUNDI NATURALIS HISTORIAE
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> LIBRI IV
>
> [Chapter 13]
>
> [Line 95]
> Philemon Morimarusam a Cimbris vocari, hoc est mortuum mare, inde
> usque ad promunturium Rusbeas, ultra deinde Cronium. Xenophon
> Lampsacenus a litore Scytharum tridui navigatione insulam esse
> inmensae magnitudinis Balciam tradit, eandem Pytheas Basiliam
> nominat. feruntur et Oeonae, in quibus ovis avium et avenis incolae
> vivant, aliae, in quibus equinis pedibus homines nascantur,
> Hippopodes appellati, Phanesiorum aliae, in quibus nuda alioqui
> corpora praegrandes ipsorum aures tota contegant.
>
> Rendering
> Philemon [claims] the Cimbris word Morimarusam, means the Dead Sea,
> there upwards towards the Rusbeas promontory, on the other side

next

> to Cronium. Xenophon Lampsacenus sailed three days along the coast
> [of ] Scytharum (error as it should be Scatinavum)

He does say: of the Scyths. Why *must* that be an error?

to obtain a

> measurement [of the] distance [to] Balciam Isle. Pytheas mentioned
> the very same names [as the] Basiliam and Oeonae [isles], on whose
> wild [coasts] dwell sheep and wild-oats, according to the populace
> they produce [a device] called Hippopodes (horseshoe) for the feet

of

> their houses, [from] Phanesiorum another report that someone

stripped

> [an] ancient entombed corpse [that was] entirely over laid in gold.
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> >
> JS Crary