Strabo

Strabo (c. 64 BCE-24 CE)

"Geography is essential to all the transactions of the statesman, informing us, as it does, of the position of the continents, seas, and oceans of the whole habitable earth."

•  Strabo's Geography (I.1.16), translated by H.C. Hamilton and W. Falconer (1903 edition), republished in The Complete Works of Strabo (Delphi Classics, 2016).

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