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[50] ῎ηλθομεν δ᾽ εἰς Φιλὰς ἐκ Συήνης ἀπήνῃ δι᾽ ὁμαλοῦ σφόδρα πεδίου σταδίους ὁμοῦ τι ἑκατόν. παρ᾽ ὅλην δὲ τὴν ὁδὸν ἦν ἰδεῖν ἑκατέρωθεν πολλαχοῦ ὥσπερ ἑρμαῖα πέτρον ἠλίβατον στρογγύλον, λεῖον ἱκανῶς, ἐγγὺς σφαιροειδοῦς, τοῦ μέλανος καὶ σκληροῦ λίθου, ἐξ οὗ αἱ θυῗαι γίνονται, ἐπὶ πέτρῳ κείμενον μείζονι καὶ ἐπ᾽ ἐκείνῳ πάλιν ἄλλον: ἔστι δ᾽ ὅτε αὐτοὶ καθ᾽ αὑτοὺς ἔκειντο οἱ πέτροι: ἦν δ᾽ ὁ μὲν μέγιστος τὴν διάμετρον ποδῶν οὐκ ἐλαττόνων ἢ δώδεκα, ἅπαντες δὲ μείζους ἢ ἡμίσεις τούτων. διέβημεν δὲ εἰς τὴν νῆσον ἐπὶ πάκτωνος: ὁ δὲ πάκτων διὰ σκυταλίδων πεπηγός ἐστι σκάφιον ὥστ᾽ ἐοικέναι διαπλοκίνῳ: ἑστῶτες δ᾽ ἐν ὕδατι ἢ καὶ σανιδίοις τισὶ προσκαθήμενοι ῥᾳδίως ἐπεραιώθημεν δεδιότες μάτην: ἀκίνδυνα γάρ ἐστιν, ἂν μή τις ὑπέργομον ποιήσῃ τὸ πορθμεῖον.
Strabo. ed. A. Meineke, Geographica. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.
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- LSJ, δια-πλόκινος
- LSJ, ἠλίβα^τος
- LSJ, πάκτ-ων
- LSJ, σα^νίδ-ιον
- LSJ, σκάφιον
- LSJ, σκυ^τα^λ-ίς
- LSJ, ὑπέργομος
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