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Here let me dismiss Etearchus the Ammonian, and his story, only
adding that (according to the Cyrenaeans) he declared that the
Nasamonians got safe back to their country, and that the men whose
city they had reached were a nation of sorcerers. With respect to the
river which ran by their town, Etearchus conjectured it to be the
Nile; and reason favours that view. For the Nile certainly flows
out of Libya, dividing it down the middle, and as I conceive,
judging the unknown from the known, rises at the same distance from its
mouth as the Ister. This latter river has its source in the country
of the Celts near the city Pyrene, and runs through the middle of
Europe, dividing it into two portions. The Celts live beyond the
pillars of Hercules, and border on the Cynesians, who dwell at the
extreme west of Europe. Thus the Ister flows through the whole of
Europe before it finally empties itself into the Euxine at Istria,
one of the colonies of the Milesians.
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