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See also:DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES
, author of a Ilepu',' ais Tfis oiKov dv ls, a description of the habitable See also:world in See also:Greek See also:hexameter See also:verse, written in a terse and elegant See also:style
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Nothing certain is known of the date or See also:nationality of the writer, but there is some See also:reason for believing that he was an Alexandrian, who wrote in the See also:time of See also:Hadrian (some put him as See also:late as the end of the 3rd See also:century)
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The See also:work enjoyed a high degree of popularity in See also:ancient times as a school-See also:book; it was translated into Latin by RufusFestus See also:Avienus, and by the grammarian See also:Priscian
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The commentary of See also:Eustathius is valuable
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The best See also:editions are by G
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See also:Bernhardy (1828) and C
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See also: (1905) . There are two old See also:English See also:translations: T . Twine (1572, See also:black See also:letter), J . See also:Free (1789, See also:blank verse) . |
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