> 1. Re (a) Strabo's account (7,3,17) is almost certainly drawn from a
> source which discussed the Bastarnae of Mithradates' time frame
> (i.e. first half of the 1rst c. BCE), since he admits he has no
> recent knowledge of them.
I can't find that?
***** Strabo 7,2,4: what is beyond Germany and what beyond the countries which are next after Germany — whether one should say the Bastarnae, as most writers suspect, or say that others lie in between, either the Iazyges, or the Roxolani,
47 or certain other of the wagon-dwellers
48 — it is not easy to say; nor yet whether they extend as far as the ocean along its entire length, or whether any part is uninhabitable by reason of the cold or other cause, or whether even a different race of people, succeeding the Germans, is situated between the sea and the eastern Germans. And this same ignorance prevails also in regard to the rest of the peoples that come next in
order on the north; for I know neither the Bastarnae,
49 nor the Sauromatae, nor, in a word, any of the peoples who dwell above the Pontus, nor how far distant they are from the Atlantic Sea,
50 nor whether their countries border upon it. *****