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[8] ἦν μὲν γὰρ [p. 321] αὐτῷ προστεταγμένον περιπλεῦσαι τὴν χερρόνησον τὴν Ἀράβων πᾶσαν ἔστε ἐπὶ τὸν κόλπον τὸν πρὸς Αἰγύπτῳ τὸν Ἀράβιον τὸν καθ᾽ Ἡρώων πόλιν: οὐ μὴν ἐτόλμησέ γε τὸ πρόσω ἐλθεῖν, καίτοι ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ παραπλεύσας τὴν Ἀράβων γῆν: ἀλλ᾽ ἀναστρέψας γὰρ παρ᾽ Ἀλέξανδρον ἐξήγγειλεν τὸ μέγεθός τε τῆς χερρονήσου θαυμαστόν τι εἶναι καὶ ὅσον οὐ πολὺ ἀποδέον τῆς Ἰνδῶν γῆς, ἄκραν τε ἀνέχειν ἐπὶ πολὺ τῆς μεγάλης θαλάσσης:
Flavii Arriani Anabasis Alexandri. Arrian. A.G. Roos. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1907. Keyboarding.
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