Seven Books of History against the Pagans 1.0.1–1.2.106

Latin text: Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (Latin text: K. Zangemeister (CSEL 5, 1882), digitized by Open Greek and Latin, University of Leipzig (csel-dev), CC BY-SA 4.0).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).

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Seven 1, chapter 0

1.0.1CSEL 5:1

Praeceptis tuis parui, beatissime pater Augustine; atque utinam tam efficaciter quam libenter. quamquam ego in utramuis partem parum de explicito mouear, rectene an secus egerim.

I have obeyed your instructions, most blessed father Augustine; and would that I had done so as effectively as willingly. Yet I am little troubled, in either direction, about the outcome: whether I have done rightly or otherwise.

Notes and citation

Summary: Orosius dedicates the work to Augustine as an act of obedience.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.0.1 (CSEL 5:1; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-0-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.0.2CSEL 5:1

tu enim iam isto iudicio laborasti, utrumne hoc, quod praeciperes, possem: ego autem solius oboedientiae, si tamen eam uoluntate conatuque decoraui, testimonio contentus sum.

For you have already laboured over that judgment, whether I could do what you were instructing; I, for my part, am content with the testimony of obedience alone, if indeed I have adorned it with willingness and effort.

Notes and citation

Summary: Orosius leaves the judgment of his ability to Augustine.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip sam for eam): si tamen sam uoluntate → si tamen eam uoluntate.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.0.2 (CSEL 5:1; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-0-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.0.3CSEL 5:1–2

Nam et in magna magni patrisfamilias domo cum sint multa diuersi generis animalia adiumento rei familiaris commoda, non est tamen canum cura postrema; quibus solis natura insitum est, uoluntarie ad id quod praeparantur urgueri et per ingenitam quandam oboedientiae formulam sola disciplinati timoris exspectatione suspendi, donec ad peragendi licentiam nutu signoue mittantur.

For in the great house of a great householder, although there are many animals of various kinds useful in the service of the household, the care of the dogs is not the least. To them alone it is given by nature to be urged willingly toward that for which they are trained, and, through a certain inborn pattern of obedience, to be held in suspense solely by the expectation of a disciplined fear, until they are sent off with leave to act by a nod or a sign.

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Summary: Orosius compares himself to a household dog that waits for its master's sign.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (initial letter lost in the digital text): am et in magna → Nam et in magna.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.0.3 (CSEL 5:1–2; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-0-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.0.4CSEL 5:2

habent enim proprios appetitus, quantum brutis excellentiores tantum rationabilibus propinquantes, hoc est discernere amare seruire.

For they have their own impulses, coming as close to rational beings as they excel brute beasts: that is, to discern, to love, to serve.

Notes and citation

Summary: Dogs, he says, can discern, love, and serve.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.0.4 (CSEL 5:2; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-0-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.0.5CSEL 5:2

nam discernentes inter dominos atque extraneos non eos quos insectantur oderunt sed iis quos amant zelant, et amantes dominum ac domum non quasi ex natura apti corporis uigilant, sed ex conscientia solliciti amoris inuigilant.

For discerning between masters and strangers, they do not hate those they chase but are zealous for those they love; and loving their master and his house, they keep watch not as if from a natural aptitude of body, but they keep vigil from the awareness of an anxious love.

Notes and citation

Summary: A dog's watchfulness springs from love of its master.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip noni for non): domum noni quasi → domum non quasi.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.0.5 (CSEL 5:2; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-0-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.0.6CSEL 5:2

unde etiam mystico sacramento in Euangeliis, quod edant micas catelli sub mensa dominorum, et Chananaea non erubuit dicere et Dominus non fastidiuit audire.

Hence also, as a mystical sign in the Gospels, the Canaanite woman did not blush to say, and the Lord did not disdain to hear, that the little dogs eat the crumbs under their masters' table.

Matt 15:27 (allusion, high confidence) · Mark 7:28 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: He recalls the Canaanite woman's words about the dogs and the crumbs.

  • Matt 15:27; Mark 7:28.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.0.6 (CSEL 5:2; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-0-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.0.7CSEL 5:2–3

beatus etiam Tobias, ducem angelum sequens, canem comitem habere non spreuit. igitur generali amori tuo speciali amore conexus uoluntati tuae uolens parui.

Blessed Tobias too, following the angel as his guide, did not scorn to have a dog as companion. Therefore, bound to your general love by a special love, I have willingly obeyed your will.

Notes and citation

Summary: Citing Tobias's dog, Orosius says he has gladly obeyed.

  • Tobit 6:1 (Vulgate), where the dog follows Tobias; cf. 11:9.

Extrabiblical texts: Tob 6:1 (Tobit [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; allusion)

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.0.7 (CSEL 5:2–3; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-0-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.0.8CSEL 5:3

nam cum subiectio mea praecepto paternitatis tuae factum debeat totumque tuum sit, quod ex te ad te redit, opus meum, hoc solo meo cumulatius reddidi, quod libens feci.

For since my submission owes the deed to the command of your fatherhood, and the whole work is yours, since it returns to you from you, I have repaid it more abundantly by this alone that is mine: that I did it gladly.

Notes and citation

Summary: The work is Augustine's; Orosius's only contribution is his willingness.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.0.8 (CSEL 5:3; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-0-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.0.9CSEL 5:3

Praeceperas mihi, uti aduersus uaniloquam prauitatem eorum, qui alieni a ciuitate Dei ex locorum agrestium conpitis et pagis pagani uocantur siue gentiles quia terrena sapiunt, qui cum futura non quaerant, praeterita autem aut obliuiscantur aut nesciant, praesentia tamen tempora ueluti malis extra solitum infestatissima ob hoc solum quod creditur Christus et colitur Deus, idola autem minus coluntur, infamant:

You had instructed me to speak against the empty-talking perversity of those who, strangers to the City of God, are called pagans (*pagani*) from the crossroads and villages (*pagi*) of country places, or gentiles because they savour earthly things. Since they do not seek the future, and either forget or do not know the past, they nevertheless defame the present times as most beset by evils beyond the usual, for this reason alone: that Christ is believed and God is worshipped, while idols are less worshipped.

Phil 3:19 (echo, low confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Augustine asked Orosius to answer the pagans who blame the present troubles on Christianity.

  • The derivation of *pagani* from *pagus* (village) is Orosius's. 'Beyond the usual' renders *extra solitum*, corrected from the digital text's *extra alitum*. 'Savour earthly things' recalls Phil 3:19.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip alitum for solitum): malis extra alitum → malis extra solitum.

Topics: Paganism

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.0.9 (CSEL 5:3; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-0-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.0.10CSEL 5:3–4

— praeceperas ergo, ut ex omnibus qui haberi ad praesens possunt historiarum atque annalium fastis, quaecumque aut bellis grauia aut corrupta morbis aut fame tristia aut terrarum motibus terribilia aut inundationibus aquarum insolita aut eruptionibus ignium metuenda aut ictibus fulminum plagisque grandinum saeua uel etiam parricidiis flagitiisque misera per transacta retro saecula repperissem, ordinato breuiter uoluminis textu explicarem.

You instructed me, then, that from all the records of histories and annals that can be had at present, whatever I found in ages past that was grievous with wars, or wasted by diseases, or sad with famine, or terrible with earthquakes, or unusual for floods of water, or fearful for eruptions of fire, or savage with strokes of lightning and blows of hail, or wretched also with parricides and crimes, I should set out briefly in the ordered text of a volume.

Notes and citation

Summary: His task is to collect from the histories the disasters of past ages.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.0.10 (CSEL 5:3–4; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-0-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.0.11CSEL 5:4

maxime cum reuerentiam tuam perficiendo aduersum hos ipsos paganos undecimo libro insistentem — quorum iam decem orientes radii mox ut de specula ecclesia-

Especially since it was not fitting that Your Reverence, intent on completing the eleventh book against these same pagans (whose ten books, like rays of the rising sun, shone throughout the world as soon as they were raised up from the watchtower of the church's

Notes and citation

Summary: Augustine was then at work on the eleventh book of the City of God.

  • The sentence continues in 1.0.12. The work is Augustine's *City of God*, of which ten books had then appeared.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.0.11 (CSEL 5:4; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-0-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.0.12CSEL 5:4

sticae claritatis elati sunt toto orbe fulserunt - leui opusculo occupari non oporteret et sanctus filius tuus, Iulianus Carthaginiensis, seruus Dei, satisfieri super hac re petitioni suae eadem fiducia qua poposcit exigeret:

splendour), should be taken up with a slight little work; and since your holy son Julian of Carthage, a servant of God, was demanding with the same confidence with which he had asked that his request on this matter be satisfied,

Notes and citation

Summary: Julian of Carthage also pressed for the work to be done.

  • Continues the sentence of 1.0.11.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.0.12 (CSEL 5:4; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-0-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.0.13CSEL 5:4

dedi operam et me ipsum in primis confusione pressi. cui plerumque reputanti super modum exaestuauisse praesentium clades temporum uidebantur.

I set to work, and first of all I was overwhelmed with confusion myself; for as I often reflected, the disasters of the present times seemed to me to have boiled over beyond measure.

Notes and citation

Summary: At first Orosius himself thought the present disasters unusually great.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.0.13 (CSEL 5:4; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-0-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.0.14CSEL 5:4–5

nanctus sum enim praeteritos dies non solum aeque ut hos graues, uerum etiam tanto atrocius miseros quanto longius a remedio uerae religionis alienos: ut merito hac scrutatione claruerit regnasse mortem auidam sanguinis, dum ignoratur religio quae prohiberet a sanguine; ista inlucescente, illam constupuisse; illam concludi, cum ista iam praeualet; illam penitus nullam futuram, cum haec sola regnabit:

For I found that past days were not only as grievous as these, but more terribly wretched the further they were from the remedy of true religion; so that this investigation has rightly made it clear that death, greedy for blood, reigned while the religion that would forbid bloodshed was unknown; that as this religion dawned, death was stunned; that death is shut in now that religion prevails; and that death will be wholly nothing when religion alone reigns,

Rom 5:14 (echo, low confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: He found the past worse than the present, the more so the further from true religion.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (stray period in the digital text): longius a. remedio → longius a remedio.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.0.14 (CSEL 5:4–5; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-0-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.0.15CSEL 5:5

exceptis uidelicet semotisque illis diebus nouissimis sub fine saeculi et sub apparitione Antichristi uel etiam sub conclusione iudicii, quibus futuras angustias, quales ante non fuerint, dominus Christus per scripturas sanctas sua etiam contestatione praedixit,

excepting, of course, and setting apart those last days at the end of the age, at the appearance of Antichrist or also at the conclusion of the judgment, for which the Lord Christ foretold through the holy Scriptures, by his own testimony also, distresses to come such as there have not been before,

Matt 24:21 (allusion, high confidence) · Mark 13:19 (allusion, medium confidence) · Dan 12:1 (echo, low confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The exception is the tribulation of the last days foretold by Christ.

  • Matt 24:21; Mark 13:19; cf. Dan 12:1.

Topics: Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.0.15 (CSEL 5:5; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-0-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.0.16CSEL 5:5

cum secundum ipsum quidem qui et nunc et semper est modum uerum apertiore ac grauiore discrimine, per intolerabiles tribulationes temporum illorum sanctos probatio, impios perditio consequetur.

when, according to the true measure of him who is both now and always, but in a more open and graver crisis, through the unbearable tribulations of those times testing will follow the saints, and destruction the wicked.

Notes and citation

Summary: In those last days the saints will be tested and the wicked destroyed.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (stray period in the middle of the sentence): sanctos probatio. impios → sanctos probatio, impios.

Topics: Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.0.16 (CSEL 5:5; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-0-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

Seven 1, chapter 1

1.1.1CSEL 5:5

et quoniam omnes propemodum tam apud Graecos quam apud Latinos studiosi ad scribendum uiri, qui res gestas regum populorumque ob diuturnam memoriam uerbis propagauerunt, initium scribendi a Nino Beli filio, rege Assyriorum, fecere —

And since nearly all the men eager to write, among the Greeks as among the Latins, who have spread abroad in words the deeds of kings and peoples for a lasting memory, have begun their writing with Ninus son of Belus, king of the Assyrians,

Notes and citation

Summary: The historians begin their accounts with Ninus, king of Assyria.

  • The sentence runs on to 1.1.4.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.1.1 (CSEL 5:5; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-1-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.1.2CSEL 5:5

qui cum opinione caeca mundi originem creaturamque hominum sine initio credi uelint, coepisse tamen ab hoc regna bellaque definiunt,

who, although by a blind opinion they would have it believed that the origin of the world and the creation of men had no beginning, nevertheless define kingdoms and wars as having begun from him,

Notes and citation

Summary: They hold the world eternal but date kingdoms and wars from Ninus.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.1.2 (CSEL 5:5; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-1-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.1.3CSEL 5:5–6

quasi uero eatenus humanum genus ritu pecudum uixerit et tunc primum ueluti ad nouam prouidentiam concussum suscitatumque uigilarit —:

as if, forsooth, the human race had lived until then in the manner of cattle, and then for the first time, as though shaken and roused to a new foresight, had awakened:

Notes and citation

Summary: As if mankind had lived like cattle until then.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip nonam for nouam): ad nonam prouidentiam → ad nouam prouidentiam.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.1.3 (CSEL 5:5–6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-1-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.1.4CSEL 5:6

ego initium miseriae hominum ab initio peccati hominis ducere institui, paucis dumtaxat isdemque breuiter delibatis.

I have resolved to trace the beginning of man's misery from the beginning of man's sin, touching only a few points, and those briefly.

Notes and citation

Summary: Orosius will begin human misery with the first sin.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.1.4 (CSEL 5:6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-1-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.1.5CSEL 5:6

Sunt autem ab Adam primo homine usque ad Ninum magnum ut dicunt regem, quando natus est Abraham, anni III.CLXXXIIII, qui ab omnibus historiographis uel omissi uel ignorati sunt.

From Adam, the first man, to Ninus, the 'great king' as they call him, when Abraham was born, there are 3,184 years, which have been either passed over or not known by all the historians.

Notes and citation

Summary: There are 3,184 years from Adam to Ninus and Abraham.

  • The figure follows the Septuagint-based chronology of Eusebius and Jerome.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (Greek iotas in place of Latin I in the numeral): ΙΙI.CLXXXIIII → III.CLXXXIIII.

Extrabiblical texts: Chron. (Eusebius and Jerome, Chronicle; echo)

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.1.5 (CSEL 5:6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-1-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.1.6CSEL 5:6

a Nino autem uel Abraham usque ad Caesarem Augustum id est usque ad natiuitatem Christi, quae fuit anno imperii Caesaris quadragesimo secundo, cum facta pace cum Parthis Iani portae clausae sunt et bella toto orbe cessarunt, colliguntur anni MMXV in quibus se inter actores scriptoresque omnium otia negotiaque triuerunt.

From Ninus or Abraham to Caesar Augustus, that is, to the birth of Christ, which was in the forty-second year of Caesar's rule, when peace was made with the Parthians, the gates of Janus were closed and wars ceased throughout the world, 2,015 years are counted, in which all the leisure and business of the men of action and the writers was spent.

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Summary: There are 2,015 years from Ninus and Abraham to the birth of Christ under Augustus.

  • The numeral is garbled in the digital text (*n xv*); Zangemeister prints MMXV (2,015).

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (garbled numeral in the digital text): anni n xv → anni MMXV.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.1.6 (CSEL 5:6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-1-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.1.7CSEL 5:6–7

quapropter res ipsa exigit ex his libris quam breuissime uel pauca contingere, qui originem mundi loquentes praeteritorum fidem adnuntiatione futurorum et post subsequa probatione fecerunt:

Therefore the matter itself demands that I touch, as briefly as possible, on a few things from those books which, speaking of the origin of the world, have won credence for the past by foretelling the future and by the proof that followed:

Notes and citation

Summary: He will draw briefly on the Scriptures, whose prophecies were proved true.

Topics: Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.1.7 (CSEL 5:6–7; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-1-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.1.8CSEL 5:7

non quo auctoritatem eorum cuiquam uideamur ingerere, sed quo operae pretium sit de opinione uulgata quae nobis cum omnibus communis est commonere.

not that we seem to force their authority on anyone, but because it is worthwhile to recall a commonly held opinion which we share with everyone.

Notes and citation

Summary: He does not force biblical authority on his readers but appeals to common opinion.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.1.8 (CSEL 5:7; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-1-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.1.9CSEL 5:7

primum quia si diuina prouidentia, quae sicut bona ita et iusta est, agitur mundus et homo, hominem autem, qui conuertibilitate naturae et libertate licentiae et infirmus et contumax est, sicut pie gubernari egenum opis oportet ita iuste corripi inmoderatum libertatis necesse est,

First, because if the world and man are governed by divine providence, which is just as well as good, and man, who by the changeableness of his nature and the freedom of his choice is both weak and stubborn, must be governed with mercy when he needs help, and must also be justly corrected when he is immoderate in his freedom,

Notes and citation

Summary: Providence must both help and correct man, who is weak and stubborn.

Topics: Providence

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.1.9 (CSEL 5:7; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-1-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.1.10CSEL 5:7

iure ab initio hominis per bona malaque alternantia, exerceri hunc mundum sentit quisquis per se atque in se humanum genus uidet;

then anyone who sees the human race through himself and in himself perceives that this world has rightly been exercised from the beginning of man by alternating goods and evils;

Notes and citation

Summary: So the world has always known alternating good and evil.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.1.10 (CSEL 5:7; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-1-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.1.11CSEL 5:7

deinde cum ab ipso primo homine peccatum punitionemque peccati coepisse doceamur; porro autem cum etiam isti de mediis temporibus inchoantes, quamuis superiorum nusquam meminerint, nihil nisi bella cladesque descripserint —

next, since we are taught that sin and the punishment of sin began with the first man himself; and further, since even those historians, beginning from the middle of time, although they nowhere remember earlier ages, have described nothing but wars and disasters,

Gen 3:17 (echo, low confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Sin and its punishment began with Adam, and the historians record only wars and disasters.

Topics: The fall

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.1.11 (CSEL 5:7; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-1-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.1.12CSEL 5:7–8

quae bella quid aliud dicenda sunt, nisi uergentia in alterutrum mala; mala autem huiusmodi quae tunc erant, sicut et nunc sunt in quantum sunt, sine dubio aut manifesta peccata sunt aut occultae punitiones peccatorum —:

and what else are these wars to be called but evils turning now one way, now the other? And evils of this kind which existed then, as they also exist now in so far as they exist, are without doubt either manifest sins or hidden punishments of sins:

Notes and citation

Summary: Wars and evils are either open sins or hidden punishments of sin.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.1.12 (CSEL 5:7–8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-1-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.1.13CSEL 5:8

quid impedimenti est nos eius rei caput pandere, cuius illi corpus expresserint, et priora illa saecula, quae multo numerosiora monstramus, uel tenuissimo testari relatu similes miserias pertulisse?

what hinders us from laying open the head of that matter whose body they have depicted, and from showing, even by the briefest account, that those earlier ages, which we show to have been far more numerous, endured similar miseries?

Notes and citation

Summary: He will show that the earlier ages suffered similar miseries.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.1.13 (CSEL 5:8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-1-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.1.14CSEL 5:8

Dicturus igitur ab orbe condito usque ad Vrbem conditam, dehinc usque ad Caesaris principatum natiuitatemque Christi ex quo sub potestate Vrbis orbis mansit imperium, uel etiam usque ad dies nostros, in quantum ad cognitionem uocare

Being about to tell, then, from the founding of the world to the founding of the City, and then to the principate of Caesar and the birth of Christ, from which time the empire of the world has remained under the power of the City, or even to our own days, as far as I shall be able

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Summary: He sets out the span of his history, from creation to his own day.

  • The sentence runs on to 1.1.16. 'The City' is Rome.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.1.14 (CSEL 5:8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-1-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.1.15CSEL 5:8

suffecero, conflictationes generis humani et ueluti per diuersas partes ardentem malis mundum face cupiditatis incensum e

to bring them to knowledge, and to display the conflicts of the human race, and the world, set on fire by the torch of greed and burning with evils in its various parts, as from

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Summary: He will display the world set on fire by greed.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.1.15 (CSEL 5:8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-1-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.1.16CSEL 5:8

specula ostentaturus necessarium reor, ut primum ipsum terrarum orbem quem inhabitat humanum genus, sicut est a maioribus trifariam distributus deinde regionibus prouinciisque determinatus, expediam;

a watchtower, I think it necessary first to set out the very circle of the lands which the human race inhabits, as it was divided by our ancestors into three parts and then marked out by regions and provinces;

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Summary: First he will describe the geography of the inhabited world.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.1.16 (CSEL 5:8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-1-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.1.17CSEL 5:8–9

quo facilius, cum locales bellorum morborumque clades ostentabuntur, studiosi quique non solum rerum ac temporum sed etiam locorum scientiam consequantur.

so that, when the local disasters of wars and diseases are displayed, all who are studious may more easily gain knowledge not only of events and times but also of places.

Notes and citation

Summary: Geography will help readers place the events.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.1.17 (CSEL 5:8–9; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-1-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Seven 1, chapter 2

1.2.1CSEL 5:9

Maiores nostri orbem totius terrae, oceani limbo circum saeptum, triquetrum statuere eiusque tres partes ASIAM EVROPAM ET AFRICAM uocauerunt, quamuis aliqui duas hoc est Asiam ac deinde Africam in Europam accipiendam putarint.

Our ancestors held that the circle of the whole earth, enclosed by the border of the Ocean, is three-cornered, and called its three parts Asia, Europe, and Africa, although some have thought there are two, that is, Asia, and then Africa, to be counted as part of Europe.

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Summary: The world is divided into Asia, Europe, and Africa.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.1 (CSEL 5:9; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.2CSEL 5:9

ASIA tribus partibus oceano circumcincta per totam transuersi plagam orientis extenditur.

Asia, surrounded by the Ocean on three sides, stretches across the whole region of the east.

Notes and citation

Summary: Asia occupies the east.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.2 (CSEL 5:9; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.3CSEL 5:9–10

haec occasum uersus a dextra sui sub axe septentrionis incipientem contingit Europam, a sinistra autem Africam dimittit, sub Aegypto uero et Syria mare nostrum quod Magnum generaliter dicimus habet.

Toward the west, on its right, it touches Europe, which begins under the northern pole; on its left it leaves Africa; and below Egypt and Syria it has our sea, which we generally call the Great Sea.

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Summary: Asia borders Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.3 (CSEL 5:9–10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.4CSEL 5:10

EVROPA incipit ut dixi sub plaga septentrionis, a flumine Tanai, qua Riphaei montes Sarmatico auersi oceano Tanaim

Europe begins, as I said, in the northern region at the river Tanais, where the Riphaean mountains, turned away from the Sarmatian Ocean, pour out the river Tanais,

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Summary: Europe begins at the river Don.

  • The Tanais is the Don. The sentence continues in 1.2.5.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.4 (CSEL 5:10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.5CSEL 5:10

fluuium fundunt, qui praeteriens aras ac terminos Alexandri Magni in Rhobascorum finibus sitos Maeotidas auget paludes, quarum inmensa exundatio iuxta Theodosiam urbem Euxinum Pontum late ingreditur.

which, passing the altars and boundary marks of Alexander the Great set in the territory of the Rhobasci, swells the Maeotic marshes, whose immense overflow enters the Euxine Sea far and wide near the city of Theodosia.

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Summary: The Don flows into the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.

  • The Maeotic marshes are the Sea of Azov; the Euxine is the Black Sea.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.5 (CSEL 5:10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.6CSEL 5:10

inde iuxta Constantinopolim longae mittuntur angustiae, donec eas mare hoc quod dicimus Nostrum accipiat.

From there a long strait is sent out near Constantinople, until this sea which we call Ours receives it.

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Summary: The straits at Constantinople lead to the Mediterranean.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.6 (CSEL 5:10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.7CSEL 5:10–11

Europae in Hispania occidentalis oceanus termino est, maxime ubi apud Gades insulas Herculis columnae uisuntur et Tyrrheni maris faucibus oceani aestus inmittitur.

In Spain the western Ocean is the boundary of Europe, especially where the Pillars of Hercules are seen at the Gades islands and the tide of the Ocean flows into the jaws of the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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Summary: Europe ends in the west at Spain and the Strait of Gibraltar.

  • Gades is Cádiz.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.7 (CSEL 5:10–11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.8CSEL 5:11

AFRICAE principium est a finibus Aegypti urbisque Alexandriae ubi Parethonio ciuitas sita est, super mare hoc Magnum, quod omnes plagas terrasque medias interluit.

The beginning of Africa is at the borders of Egypt and the city of Alexandria, where the city of Paraetonium lies, on this Great Sea which washes all the regions and lands in the middle.

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Summary: Africa begins at Egypt's western border.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.8 (CSEL 5:11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.9CSEL 5:11

unde per loca quae accolae Catabathmon uocant haud procul a castris Alexandri Magni et super lacum Chalearzum, deinde iuxta superiorum fines Auasitarum missa in transuersum per Aethiopica deserta meridianum contingit oceanum.

From there, through the places the inhabitants call Catabathmon, not far from the camp of Alexander the Great, and above Lake Chalearzus, then past the borders of the Upper Avasitae, its line runs across the Ethiopian deserts and touches the southern Ocean.

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Summary: Africa's eastern boundary runs south to the Ocean.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.9 (CSEL 5:11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.10CSEL 5:11

termini Africae ad occidentem idem sunt qui et Europae, id est fauces Gaditani freti.

The boundaries of Africa to the west are the same as those of Europe, that is, the jaws of the Strait of Gades.

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Summary: Africa ends in the west at the Strait of Gibraltar.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.10 (CSEL 5:11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.11CSEL 5:11

ultimus autem finis eius est mons Athlans et insulae quas Fortunatas uocant.

Its farthest limit is Mount Atlas and the islands they call the Fortunate Isles.

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Summary: Its farthest point is Mount Atlas and the Fortunate Isles.

  • The Fortunate Isles are the Canaries.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.11 (CSEL 5:11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.12CSEL 5:11–12

Et quia breuiter generales tripertiti orbis diuisiones dedi, ipsarum quoque partium regiones, sicut pollicitus sum, significare curabo.

And since I have briefly given the general divisions of the threefold world, I shall take care to indicate also the regions of the parts themselves, as I promised.

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Summary: Now he will describe the regions of each part.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.12 (CSEL 5:11–12; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.13CSEL 5:12

ASIA ad mediam frontem orientis habet in oceano Eoo ostia fluminis Gangis, a sinistra promunturium Caligardamana, cui subiacet ad Eurum insula Taprobane, ex qua oceanus Indicus uocari incipit;

Asia, at the middle of its eastern front, has on the Eastern Ocean the mouths of the river Ganges; on the left the promontory of Caligardamana, below which to the south-east lies the island of Taprobane, from which the Ocean begins to be called the Indian Ocean;

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Summary: Asia's eastern edge: the Ganges and Taprobane.

  • Taprobane is Sri Lanka.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.13 (CSEL 5:12; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.14CSEL 5:12

a dextra habet Imaui montis — ubi Caucasus deficit — promunturium Samarae, cui ad aquilonem subiacent ostia fluminis Ottorogorrae, ex quo oceanus Sericus appellatur.

on the right it has the promontory of Samara on Mount Imavus, where the Caucasus ends, below which to the north lie the mouths of the river Ottorogorra, from which the Ocean is called the Seric.

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Summary: In the north-east lie Mount Imavus and the Seric Ocean.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.14 (CSEL 5:12; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.15CSEL 5:12–13

In his finibus INDIA est, quae habet ab occidente flumen Indum, quod Rubro mari accipitur, a septentrione montem Caucasum; reliqua ut dixi Eoo et Indico oceano terminatur.

Within these boundaries is India, which has on the west the river Indus, which is received by the Red Sea, and on the north Mount Caucasus; the rest, as I said, is bounded by the Eastern and the Indian Ocean.

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Summary: Boundaries of India.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.15 (CSEL 5:12–13; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.16CSEL 5:13

haec habet gentes XLIIII, absque insula Taprobane, quae habet decem ciuitates, et absque reliquis insulis habitabilibus plurimis.

It has forty-four peoples, besides the island of Taprobane, which has ten cities, and besides very many other inhabitable islands.

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Summary: India has forty-four peoples.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.16 (CSEL 5:13; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.17CSEL 5:13

A flumine Indo, quod est ab oriente; usque ad flumen Tigrim, quod est ad occasum, regiones sunt istae: ARACHOSIA PARTHIA ASSVRIA PERSIDA ET MEDIA, situ terrarum montuoso et aspero.

From the river Indus, which is on the east, to the river Tigris, which is on the west, are these regions: Arachosia, Parthia, Assyria, Persis and Media, mountainous and rugged country.

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Summary: Between the Indus and the Tigris lie Arachosia, Parthia, Assyria, Persis, and Media.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.17 (CSEL 5:13; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.18CSEL 5:13

hae a septentrione habent montem Caucasum, a meridie mare Rubrum et sinum Persicum, in medio autem sui flumina praecipua Hydaspem et Arbim. in his sunt gentes XXXII.

These have on the north Mount Caucasus, on the south the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and in their midst the chief rivers Hydaspes and Arbis. In them are thirty-two peoples.

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Summary: Their borders and rivers; thirty-two peoples.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.18 (CSEL 5:13; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.19CSEL 5:13–14

sed generaliter Parthia dicitur, quamuis Scripturae Sanctae uniuersam saepe Mediam uocent.

But it is generally called Parthia, although the holy Scriptures often call the whole of it Media.

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Summary: The region is called Parthia, or in Scripture Media.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.19 (CSEL 5:13–14; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.20CSEL 5:14

A flumine Tigri usque ad flumen Euphraten MESOPOTAMIA est, incipiens a septentrione inter montem Taurum et Caucasum.

From the river Tigris to the river Euphrates is Mesopotamia, beginning in the north between Mount Taurus and the Caucasus.

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Summary: Mesopotamia lies between the Tigris and the Euphrates.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.20 (CSEL 5:14; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.21CSEL 5:14

cui ad meridiem succedit Babylonia, deinde Chaldaea, nouissime Arabia Eudaemon, quae inter sinum Persicum et Arabicum angusto terrae tractu orientem uersus extenditur.

South of it comes Babylonia, then Chaldaea, and last Arabia Eudaemon, which stretches eastward in a narrow tract of land between the Persian and the Arabian Gulf.

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Summary: South of Mesopotamia lie Babylonia, Chaldaea, and Arabia Felix.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.21 (CSEL 5:14; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.22CSEL 5:14

in his sunt gentes XXVIII.

In these are twenty-eight peoples.

Notes and citation

Summary: They hold twenty-eight peoples.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.22 (CSEL 5:14; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-22). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.23CSEL 5:14

A flumine Euphrate, quod est ab oriente, usque ad mare Nostrum, quod est ab occasu, deinde a septentrione id est a ciuitate Dagusa, quae in confinio Cappadociae et Armeniae sita est haud procul a loco ubi Euphrates nascitur, usque ad

From the river Euphrates, which is on the east, to Our Sea, which is on the west, and from the north, that is, from the city of Dagusa, which lies on the border of Cappadocia and Armenia not far from where the Euphrates rises, as far as

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Summary: The extent of Syria begins to be described.

  • The sentence continues in 1.2.24.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.23 (CSEL 5:14; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.24CSEL 5:14–15

Aegyptum et extremum sinum Arabicum, qui ad meridiem longo angustoque sulco saxis insulisque creberrimo a Rubro mari id est ab oceano occasum uersus extenditur, SVRTA generaliter nominatur, habens maximas prouincias Commagenam Phoeniciam et Palaestinam, absque Saracenis et Nabathaeis, quorum gentes sunt XII.

Egypt and the end of the Arabian Gulf, which stretches westward from the Red Sea, that is, from the Ocean, toward the south in a long, narrow channel thick with rocks and islands, the land is generally named Syria. It has the very large provinces of Commagene, Phoenicia and Palestine, besides the Saracens and Nabataeans, whose peoples are twelve.

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Summary: Syria, with Commagene, Phoenicia, and Palestine.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.24 (CSEL 5:14–15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-24). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.25CSEL 5:15

In capite Syriae CAPPADOCIA est, quae habet ab oriente Armeniam, ab occasu Asiam, ab aquilone Themiscyrios campos et mare Cimmericum, a meridie Taurum montem, cui subiacet Cilicia et Isauria. usque ad Cilicium sinum, qui spectat contra insulam Cyprum.

At the head of Syria is Cappadocia, which has Armenia on the east, Asia on the west, the Themiscyrian plains and the Cimmerian Sea on the north, and Mount Taurus on the south, below which lie Cilicia and Isauria, as far as the Cilician Gulf, which faces the island of Cyprus.

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Summary: Boundaries of Cappadocia.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.25 (CSEL 5:15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-25). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.26CSEL 5:15–16

ASIA REGIO uel, ut proprie dicam, Asia minor absque orientali parte qua ad Cappadociam Syriamque progreditur undique circumdata est mari: a septentrione Ponto Euxino, ab occasu Propontide atque Hellesponto, ad meridiem mari Nostro. ibi est mons Olympus.

The region of Asia, or, to speak properly, Asia Minor, except on its eastern side where it runs toward Cappadocia and Syria, is surrounded on every side by sea: on the north by the Euxine, on the west by the Propontis and the Hellespont, on the south by Our Sea. There is Mount Olympus.

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Summary: Asia Minor and its seas.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (stray comma): mons Olympus., → mons Olympus..

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.26 (CSEL 5:15–16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-26). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.27CSEL 5:16

AEGVPTVS inferior ab oriente habet Syriam Palaestinam, ab occasu Libyam, a septentrione mare Nostrum, a meridie montem. qui appellatur Climax. et Aegyptum superiorem fluuium-

Lower Egypt has on the east Syria Palaestina, on the west Libya, on the north Our Sea, on the south the mountain called Climax, and Upper Egypt, and the river

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Summary: Boundaries of Lower Egypt.

  • The sentence continues in 1.2.28.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip T for V): AEGTPTVS → AEGVPTVS.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.27 (CSEL 5:16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-27). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.28CSEL 5:16

que Nilum, qui de litore incipientis maris Rubri uidetur emergere in loco, qui dicitur Mossylon emporium, deinde diu ad occasum profluens, faciens insulam nomine Meroen in medio sui, nouissime ad septentrionem inflexus, tempestiuis auctus incrementis plana Aegypti rigat.

Nile, which seems to emerge from the shore where the Red Sea begins, at the place called the Mossylon market; then, flowing long toward the west and making in its midst an island named Meroe, it finally bends north and, swollen by its seasonal floods, waters the plains of Egypt.

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Summary: The course of the Nile.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.28 (CSEL 5:16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-28). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.29CSEL 5:16

hunc aliqui auctores ferunt haud procul ab Athlante habere fontem et continuo harenis

Some authors report that it has its source not far from Atlas and at once sinks into the sands,

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Summary: Some place the Nile's source near Mount Atlas.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.29 (CSEL 5:16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-29). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.30CSEL 5:16–17

mergi, inde interiecto breui spatio uastissimo lacu exundare atque hinc oceano tenus orientem uersus per Aethiopica deserta prolabi rursusque inflexum ad sinistram ad Aegyptum descendere.

then after a short interval overflows in a vast lake, and from there flows eastward through the Ethiopian deserts as far as the Ocean, and bending again to the left, comes down to Egypt.

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Summary: This theory makes it flow east and then north to Egypt.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.30 (CSEL 5:16–17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-30). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.31CSEL 5:17

quod quidem uerum est esse huiusmodi fluuium magnum, qui tali ortu talique cursu sit et re uera omnia Nili monstra gignat; quem utique prope fontem barbari Dara nominant, ceteri uero accolae Nuhul uocant;

It is indeed true that there is a great river of this kind, with such a source and such a course, and that it truly produces all the monsters of the Nile; the barbarians near its source call it Dara, but the other inhabitants call it Nuhul;

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Summary: There is such a western river, called Dara or Nuhul.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.31 (CSEL 5:17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-31). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.32CSEL 5:17

sed hic in regione gentium, quae Libyoaegyptiae uocantur, haud procul ab illo fluuio, quem a litore maris Rubri prorumpere diximus, inmenso lacu acceptus absumitur;

but in the region of the peoples called Libyoaegyptians, not far from the river which we said bursts forth from the shore of the Red Sea, it is received into an immense lake and swallowed up,

Notes and citation

Summary: But that river ends in a lake.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.32 (CSEL 5:17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-32). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.33CSEL 5:17

nisi forte occulto meatu in alueum eius, qui ab oriente descendit, eructat. AEGVPTVS SVPERIOR in orientem per longum extenditur.

unless perhaps by a hidden passage it discharges into the bed of the one that comes down from the east. Upper Egypt stretches a long way to the east.

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Summary: Unless it joins the Nile underground; Upper Egypt stretches east.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.33 (CSEL 5:17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-33). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.34CSEL 5:17

cui est a septentrione sinus Arabicus, a meridie oceanus. nam ab occasu ex inferiore Aegypto incipit, ad orientem Rubro mari terminatur. ibi sunt gentes XXIIII.

It has on the north the Arabian Gulf, on the south the Ocean; for on the west it begins from Lower Egypt, and on the east it is bounded by the Red Sea. There are twenty-four peoples there.

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Summary: Boundaries of Upper Egypt.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.34 (CSEL 5:17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-34). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.35CSEL 5:17

Et quoniam meridianam partem uniuersae Asiae descripsimus, superest ut ab oriente ad septentrionem pars quae restat expediatur.

And since we have described the southern part of all Asia, it remains to set out the part that is left, from east to north.

Notes and citation

Summary: He turns to northern Asia.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.35 (CSEL 5:17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-35). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.36CSEL 5:17–18

MONS CAVCASVS inter Colchos, qui sunt super Cimmericum mare, et inter Albanos, qui sunt ad mare Caspium, primum attollitur. cuius quidem usque in ultimum orientem unum uidetur iugum, sed multa sunt nomina;

The Caucasus range first rises between the Colchians, who are above the Cimmerian Sea, and the Albanians, who are by the Caspian Sea. As far as the farthest east it seems to be a single ridge, but it has many names;

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Summary: The Caucasus range and its many names.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.36 (CSEL 5:17–18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-36). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.37CSEL 5:18

et multi hoc ipsum iugum Tauri montis credi uolunt, quia re uera Parcohatras mons Armeniae inter Taurum et Caucasum medius continuare Taurum cum Caucaso putatur;

and many would have this same ridge believed to be that of Mount Taurus, because in fact Mount Parcohatras of Armenia, lying between the Taurus and the Caucasus, is thought to join the Taurus to the Caucasus;

Notes and citation

Summary: Some take the Caucasus to be the Taurus.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.37 (CSEL 5:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-37). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.38CSEL 5:18

sed hoc ita non esse discernit fluuius Euphrates, qui, radice Parcohatrae montis effusus, tendens in meridiem, ipsum ad sinistram, Taurum excludit ad dextram.

but the river Euphrates shows that this is not so: pouring out from the foot of Mount Parcohatras and flowing south, it shuts off that mountain on its left and the Taurus on its right.

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Summary: The Euphrates separates the Caucasus from the Taurus.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.38 (CSEL 5:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-38). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.39CSEL 5:18

itaque ipse Caucasus inter Colchos et Albanos, ubi et portas habet, mons Caucasus dicitur;

So the Caucasus itself, between the Colchians and the Albanians, where it also has its gates, is called Mount Caucasus;

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Summary: Names of the range: the Caucasus proper.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.39 (CSEL 5:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-39). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.40CSEL 5:18

a portis Caspiis usque ad Armenias pylas uel usque ad fontem Tigridis fluminis inter Armeniam et Iberiam montes Acrocerauni dicuntur;

from the Caspian Gates to the Armenian Gates, or to the source of the river Tigris, between Armenia and Iberia, they are called the Acroceraunian Mountains;

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Summary: Names of the range: the Acroceraunian Mountains.

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  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip e for c): Acroeerauni → Acrocerauni.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.40 (CSEL 5:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-40). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.41CSEL 5:18

a fonte Tigridis usque ad Carras ciuitatem inter Massagetas et Parthos mons Ariobarzanes;

from the source of the Tigris to the city of Carrhae, between the Massagetae and the Parthians, Mount Ariobarzanes;

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Summary: Names of the range: Ariobarzanes.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.41 (CSEL 5:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-41). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.42CSEL 5:18

a Carris ciuitate usque ad oppidum Cathippi inter Hyrcanos et Bactrianos mons Memarmali, ubi amomum nascitur; a quo proximum iugum mons Parthau dicitur;

from the city of Carrhae to the town of Cathippus, between the Hyrcanians and the Bactrians, Mount Memarmali, where amomum grows; the ridge next to it is called Mount Parthau;

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Summary: Names of the range: Memarmali and Parthau.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.42 (CSEL 5:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-42). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.43CSEL 5:18–19

ab oppido Cathippi usque ad uicum Safrim inter Dahas Sacaraucas et Parthyenas mons Oscobares, ubi Ganges fluuius oritur et laser nascitur;

from the town of Cathippus to the village of Safris, between the Dahae, the Sacaraucae and the Parthyenae, Mount Oscobares, where the river Ganges rises and silphium grows;

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Summary: Names of the range: Oscobares.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (word split in the digital text): Sacarau cas → Sacaraucas.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.43 (CSEL 5:18–19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-43). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.44CSEL 5:19

a fonte fluminis Gangis usque ad fontes fluminis Ottorogorrae qui sunt a septentrione, ubi sunt montani Paropanisadae, mons Taurus;

from the source of the river Ganges to the sources of the river Ottorogorra, which are in the north, where the mountain-dwelling Paropanisadae live, Mount Taurus;

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Summary: Names of the range: the Taurus.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.44 (CSEL 5:19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-44). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.45CSEL 5:19

a fontibus Ottorogorrae usque ad ciuitatem Ottorogorram inter Chunos Scythas et Gandaridas mons Caucasus.

from the sources of the Ottorogorra to the city of Ottorogorra, between the Hunnic Scythians and the Gandaridae, Mount Caucasus.

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Summary: Names of the range: the Caucasus again.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.45 (CSEL 5:19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-45). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.46CSEL 5:19

ultimus autem inter Eoas et Passyadras mons Imauus, ubi flumen Chrysorhoas et promunturium Samara orientali excipiuntur oceano.

Last of all, between the Eoae and the Passyadrae, is Mount Imavus, where the river Chrysorhoas and the promontory of Samara are received by the Eastern Ocean.

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Summary: Names of the range: Imavus in the far east.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.46 (CSEL 5:19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-46). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.47CSEL 5:19–20

igitur a monte Imauo hoc est ab imo Caucaso et dextra orientis parte qua oceanus Sericus tenditur, usque ad promunturium Boreum et flumen Boreum, inde tenus Scythico mari quod est a septentrione, usque ad mare Caspium quod est ab occasu, et usque ad extentum Caucasi iugum quod est ad meridiem, Hyrcanorum et Scytharum gentes sunt XLII, propter terrarum infecundam diffusionem late oberrantes.

So from Mount Imavus, that is, from the lowest Caucasus, and the right-hand part of the east where the Seric Ocean extends, to the Boreum promontory and the river Boreum, and from there as far as the Scythian Sea in the north, to the Caspian Sea in the west, and to the extended ridge of the Caucasus in the south, there are forty-two peoples of the Hyrcanians and Scythians, wandering far and wide because of the barren expanse of the lands.

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Summary: North-east Asia holds forty-two Hyrcanian and Scythian peoples.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.47 (CSEL 5:19–20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-47). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.48CSEL 5:20

MARE CASPIVM sub Aquilonis plaga ab oceano oritur, cuius utraque circa oceanum litora et loca deserta incultaque habentur. inde meridiem uersus per longas angustias tenditur, donec per magna spatia dilatatum Caucasi montis radicibus terminetur.

The Caspian Sea rises from the Ocean in the region of the north wind; both its shores near the Ocean are deserted and uncultivated. From there it stretches south through long narrows until, widened over great spaces, it ends at the foot of Mount Caucasus.

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Summary: The Caspian Sea, thought to flow from the northern Ocean.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.48 (CSEL 5:20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-48). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.49CSEL 5:20–21

itaque a mari Caspio quod est ad orientem, per oram oceani septentrionalis usque ad Tanaim fluuium et Maeotidas paludes quae sunt ad occasum, per litus Cimmerici maris quod est ab Africo, usque ad caput et portas Caucasi quae sunt ad meridiem, gentes sunt XXXIIII.

So from the Caspian Sea, which is on the east, along the shore of the northern Ocean to the river Tanais and the Maeotic marshes, which are on the west, along the coast of the Cimmerian Sea, which is to the south-west, to the head and gates of the Caucasus, which are to the south, there are thirty-four peoples.

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Summary: Between the Caspian and the Don are thirty-four peoples.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.49 (CSEL 5:20–21; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-49). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.50CSEL 5:21

sed generaliter regio proxima Albania, ulterior sub mari et monte Caspio Amazonum nominatur.

But in general the nearer region is called Albania, and the farther, below the Caspian Sea and mountain, the land of the Amazons.

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Summary: This area is called Albania and the land of the Amazons.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.50 (CSEL 5:21; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-50). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.51CSEL 5:21

Expliciti sunt quam breuissime fines Asiae. nunc EUROPAM in quantum cognitioni hominis conceditur stilo peruagabor.

The boundaries of Asia have been set out as briefly as possible. Now I shall travel over Europe with my pen, as far as is granted to human knowledge.

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Summary: Orosius turns from Asia to Europe.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.51 (CSEL 5:21; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-51). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.52CSEL 5:21

Incipit a montibus Riphaeis ac flumine Tanai Maeotidisque paludibus quae sunt ad orientem, per litus septentrionalis oceani usque ad Galliam Belgicam et flumen Rhenum quod est ab occasu descendens, deinde usque ad Danuuium quem et Histrum uocant, qui est a meridie et ad orientem directus Ponto accipitur ab oriente Alania est,

It begins at the Riphaean Mountains, the river Tanais and the Maeotic marshes, which are on the east, and runs along the shore of the northern Ocean to Gallia Belgica and the river Rhine, which comes down from the west; then to the Danube, which they also call the Hister, which lies to the south and, flowing east, is received by the Pontus. On the east is Alania,

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Summary: Northern Europe from the Don to the Rhine and Danube; Alania in the east.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.52 (CSEL 5:21; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-52). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.53CSEL 5:21–22

in medio Dacia ubi et Gothia, deinde Germania est ubi plurimam partem Suebi tenent; quorum omnium sunt gentes LIIII.

in the middle Dacia, where Gothia also is, then Germany, where the Suebi hold the greatest part; of all these there are fifty-four peoples.

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Summary: Dacia, Gothia, and Germany: fifty-four peoples.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.53 (CSEL 5:21–22; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-53). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.54CSEL 5:22

Nunc quidquid Danuuius a barbarico ad mare Nostrum secludit expediam.

Now I shall set out whatever the Danube shuts off from barbarian lands as far as Our Sea.

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Summary: He turns to the lands south of the Danube.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.54 (CSEL 5:22; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-54). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.55CSEL 5:22

MOESIA ab oriente habet ostia fluminis Danuuii, ab euro Thraciam, a meridie Macedoniam, ab Africo Dalmatiam, ab occasu Histriam, a circio Pannoniam, a septentrione Danuuium.

Moesia has on the east the mouths of the river Danube, on the south-east Thrace, on the south Macedonia, on the south-west Dalmatia, on the west Histria, on the north-west Pannonia, on the north the Danube.

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Summary: Boundaries of Moesia.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.55 (CSEL 5:22; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-55). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.56CSEL 5:22–23

THRACIA habet ab oriente Propontidis sinum et ciuitatem Constantinopolim quae Byzantium prius dicta est, a septentrione partem Dalmatiae et sinum Euxini ponti, ab occasu et Africo Macedoniam, a meridie Aegaeum mare.

Thrace has on the east the gulf of the Propontis and the city of Constantinople, formerly called Byzantium; on the north part of Dalmatia and a gulf of the Euxine Sea; on the west and south-west Macedonia; on the south the Aegean Sea.

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Summary: Boundaries of Thrace.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.56 (CSEL 5:22–23; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-56). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.57CSEL 5:23

MACEDONIA habet ab oriente Aegaeum mare, a borea Thraciam, ab euro Euboeam et Macedonicum sinum, a meridie Achaiam, a fauonio montes Acrocerauniae in angustiis Hadriatici sinus, qui montes sunt contra Apuliam atque Brundisium, ab occasu Dalmatiam, a circio Dardaniam, a septentrione Moesiam.

Macedonia has on the east the Aegean Sea, on the north-east Thrace, on the south-east Euboea and the Macedonian Gulf, on the south Achaia, on the west-south-west the Acroceraunian Mountains at the narrows of the Adriatic Gulf, which mountains face Apulia and Brundisium, on the west Dalmatia, on the north-west Dardania, on the north Moesia.

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Summary: Boundaries of Macedonia.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.57 (CSEL 5:23; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-57). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.58CSEL 5:23–24

ACHAIA undique propemodum cincta est mari; nam ab oriente habet Myrtoum mare, ab euro mare Creticum, a meridie Ionium mare, ab Africo et occasu Cephaleniam et Cassiopam insulas, a septentrione sinum Corinthium, ab aquilone angustum terrae dorsum, quo Macedoniae coniungitur uel potius Atticae; qui locus Isthmos uocatur, ubi est Corinthus, habens in Attica ad boream non longe Athenas ciuitatem.

Achaia is surrounded by sea on almost every side: on the east it has the Myrtoan Sea, on the south-east the Cretan Sea, on the south the Ionian Sea, on the south-west and west the islands of Cephallenia and Cassiopa, on the north the Corinthian Gulf, on the north-east a narrow ridge of land by which it is joined to Macedonia, or rather to Attica. This place is called the Isthmus, where Corinth is, which has in Attica, not far to the north, the city of Athens.

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Summary: Boundaries of Achaia, with Corinth and Athens.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.58 (CSEL 5:23–24; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-58). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.59CSEL 5:24

DALMATIA habet ab oriente Macedoniam, ab aquilone Dardaniam, a septentrione Moesiam, ab occasu Histriam et sinum Liburnicum et insulas Liburnicas, a meridie Hadriaticum sinum.

Dalmatia has on the east Macedonia, on the north-east Dardania, on the north Moesia, on the west Histria, the Liburnian Gulf and the Liburnian islands, on the south the Adriatic Gulf.

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Summary: Boundaries of Dalmatia.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.59 (CSEL 5:24; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-59). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.60CSEL 5:24

PANNONIA NORICVS ET RAETIA habent ab oriente Moesiam, a meridie Histriam, ab Africo Alpes Poeninas, ab occasu Galliam Belgicam, a circio Danuuii fontem et limitem qui Germaniam a Gallia inter Danuuium Galliamque secernit, a septentrione Danuuium et Germaniam.

Pannonia, Noricum and Raetia have on the east Moesia, on the south Histria, on the south-west the Pennine Alps, on the west Gallia Belgica, on the north-west the source of the Danube and the frontier that separates Germany from Gaul between the Danube and Gaul, on the north the Danube and Germany.

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Summary: Boundaries of Pannonia, Noricum, and Raetia.

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  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip B for R): PANNONIA NOBICVS → PANNONIA NORICVS.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.60 (CSEL 5:24; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-60). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.61CSEL 5:24–25

ITALIAE SITVS a circio in eurum tenditur, habens ab Africo Tyrrhenum mare, a borea Hadriaticum sinum; cuius ea pars qua continenti terrae communis et contigua est, Alpium obicibus obstruitur.

The land of Italy stretches from north-west to south-east, having on the south-west the Tyrrhenian Sea and on the north-east the Adriatic Gulf; the part of it which is shared with and adjoins the continent is blocked by the barrier of the Alps,

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Summary: Italy and the Alps.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (stray period): ea pars. qua → ea pars qua.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.61 (CSEL 5:24–25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-61). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.62CSEL 5:25

quae a Gallico mari super Ligusticum sinum exsurgentes, primum Narbonensium fines; deinde Galliam Raetiamque secludunt, donec in sinu Liburnico defigantur.

which, rising from the Gallic Sea above the Ligurian Gulf, shut off first the territory of Narbonensis, then Gaul and Raetia, until they come to rest at the Liburnian Gulf.

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Summary: The course of the Alps.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.62 (CSEL 5:25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-62). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.63CSEL 5:25

GALLIA BELGICA habet ab oriente limitem fluminis Rheni et Germaniam, ab euro Alpes Poeninas, a meridie prouinciam. Narbonensem, ab occasu prouinciam Lugdunensem, a circio oceanum Britannicum, a septentrione Britanniam insulam.

Gallia Belgica has on the east the frontier of the river Rhine and Germany, on the south-east the Pennine Alps, on the south the province of Narbonensis, on the west the province of Lugdunensis, on the north-west the British Ocean, on the north the island of Britain.

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Summary: Boundaries of Gallia Belgica.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip ob for ab): ob oriente → ab oriente.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.63 (CSEL 5:25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-63). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.64CSEL 5:25

GALLIA LVGDVNENSIS, ducta per longum et per angustum inflexa, Aquitanicam prouinciam semicingit.

Gallia Lugdunensis, drawn out long and bent narrow, half encircles the province of Aquitania.

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Summary: Shape of Gallia Lugdunensis.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.64 (CSEL 5:25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-64). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.65CSEL 5:25

Haec ab oriente habet Belgicam, a meridie partem prouinciae Narbonensis, qua Arelas ciuitas sita est et mari Gallico Rhodani flumen accipitur.

It has on the east Belgica, on the south part of the province of Narbonensis, where the city of Arelate lies and the river Rhone is received by the Gallic Sea.

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Summary: Boundaries of Lugdunensis.

  • Arelate is Arles.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.65 (CSEL 5:25; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-65). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.66CSEL 5:25–26

NARBONENSIS PROVINCIA, pars GALLIARVM, habet ab oriente Alpes Cottias, ab occidente Hispaniam, a circio Aquitanicam, a septentrione Lugdunensem, ab aquilone Belgicam Galliam, a meridie mare Gallicum quod est inter Sardiniam et insulas Baleares, habens in fronte, qua Rhodanus fluuius in mare exit, insulas Stoechadas.

The province of Narbonensis, part of the Gauls, has on the east the Cottian Alps, on the west Spain, on the north-west Aquitania, on the north Lugdunensis, on the north-east Gallia Belgica, on the south the Gallic Sea, which lies between Sardinia and the Balearic islands; and it has off its front, where the river Rhone goes out into the sea, the Stoechades islands.

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Summary: Boundaries of Narbonensis.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.66 (CSEL 5:25–26; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-66). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.67CSEL 5:26

AQVITANICA PROVINCIA obliquo cursu Ligeris fluminis, qui ex plurima parte terminus eius est, in orbem agitur.

The province of Aquitania is bent into a circle by the slanting course of the river Liger, which for the most part is its boundary.

Notes and citation

Summary: Aquitania and the Loire.

  • The Liger is the Loire.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.67 (CSEL 5:26; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-67). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.68CSEL 5:26

haec a circio oceanum qui Aquitanicus sinus dicitur, ab occasu Hispanias habet, a septentrione et oriente Lugdunensem, ab euro et meridie Narbonensem prouinciam contingit.

It has on the north-west the Ocean, which is called the Aquitanian Gulf, on the west the Spains, on the north and east Lugdunensis; on the south-east and south it touches the province of Narbonensis.

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Summary: Boundaries of Aquitania.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.68 (CSEL 5:26; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-68). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.69CSEL 5:26

HISPANIA uniuersa terrarum situ trigona est et circumfusione oceani Tyrrhenique pelagi paene insula efficitur.

Spain as a whole is triangular in the lie of its land and, being surrounded by the Ocean and the Tyrrhenian Sea, is almost made an island.

Notes and citation

Summary: Spain is a triangular near-island.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.69 (CSEL 5:26; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-69). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.70CSEL 5:26–27

huius angulus prior, spectans ad orientem, a dextris Aquitanica prouincia, a sinistris Balearico mari coartatus, Narbonensium finibus inseritur.

Its first corner, facing east, hemmed in on the right by the province of Aquitania and on the left by the Balearic Sea, fits into the territory of Narbonensis.

Notes and citation

Summary: Spain's eastern corner.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.70 (CSEL 5:26–27; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-70). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.71CSEL 5:27

secundus angulus circium intendit; ubi Brigantia Gallaeciae ciuitas sita altissimam pharum et inter pauca memorandi operis ad speculam Britanniae erigit.

The second corner points north-west, where Brigantia, a city of Gallaecia, raises a very tall lighthouse, a work among the few worth recording, facing toward Britain.

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Summary: Spain's north-western corner and the lighthouse of Brigantia.

  • Brigantia is La Coruña, with the Roman lighthouse now called the Tower of Hercules.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.71 (CSEL 5:27; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-71). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.72CSEL 5:27

tertius angulus eius est, qua Gades insulae, intentae in Africum, Athlantem montem interiecto sinu oceani prospiciunt.

Its third corner is where the islands of Gades, facing south-west, look across an inlet of the Ocean toward Mount Atlas.

Notes and citation

Summary: Spain's southern corner at Gades.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.72 (CSEL 5:27; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-72). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.73CSEL 5:27

Hispaniam citeriorem ab oriente incipientem Pyrenaei saltus a parte septentrionis usque ad Cantabros Asturesque deducit, atque inde per Vaccaeos et Oretanos, quos ab occasu habet, posita in Nostri maris litore Carthago determinat.

Hither Spain, beginning in the east, is drawn by the Pyrenean forest on its northern side as far as the Cantabrians and Asturians, and from there, through the Vaccaei and the Oretani, whom it has on the west, it is bounded by Carthage, set on the shore of Our Sea.

Notes and citation

Summary: Boundaries of Hither Spain.

  • The Carthage of Spain, Carthago Nova (Cartagena).

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.73 (CSEL 5:27; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-73). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.74CSEL 5:27–28

Hispania ulterior habet ab oriente Vaccaeos, Celtiberos et Oretanos, a septentrione oceanum, ab occasu oceanum, a meridie Gaditanum oceani fretum; unde mare Nostrum, quod Tyrrhenum uocatur, inmittitur.

Farther Spain has on the east the Vaccaei, the Celtiberians and the Oretani, on the north the Ocean, on the west the Ocean, on the south the Gaditanian strait of the Ocean, from which Our Sea, which is called the Tyrrhenian, flows in.

Notes and citation

Summary: Boundaries of Farther Spain.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.74 (CSEL 5:27–28; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-74). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.75CSEL 5:28

Et quoniam oceanus habet insulas, quas Britanniam et Hiberniam uocant, quae in auersa Galliarum parte ad prospectum Hispaniae sitae sunt, breuiter explicabuntur.

And since the Ocean has islands, which they call Britain and Hibernia, which lie on the far side of the Gauls, within sight of Spain, they will be briefly described.

Notes and citation

Summary: He turns to Britain and Ireland.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.75 (CSEL 5:28; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-75). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.76CSEL 5:28

BRITANNIA oceani insula per longum in boream extenditur; a meridie Gallias habet. cuius proximum litus transmeantibus ciuitas aperit, quae dicitur Rutupi portus; unde haud procul a Morinis in austro positos Menapos Batauosque prospectat.

Britain, an island of the Ocean, stretches lengthwise to the north; on the south it has the Gauls. Its nearest shore opens to those crossing over at a city called Rutupiae port; from there it looks out, not far from the Morini, toward the Menapii and Batavi lying to the south.

Notes and citation

Summary: Britain and its harbour at Rutupiae.

  • Rutupiae is Richborough in Kent.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.76 (CSEL 5:28; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-76). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.77CSEL 5:28–29

haec insula habet in longo milia passuum DCCC, in lato milia cc.

This island is 800 miles in length and 200 miles in breadth.

Notes and citation

Summary: The size of Britain.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.77 (CSEL 5:28–29; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-77). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.78CSEL 5:29

A tergo autem unde oceano infinito patet Orcadas insulas habet quarum xx desertae sunt, XIII coluntur.

Behind it, where it lies open to the boundless Ocean, it has the Orkney islands, of which twenty are deserted and thirteen inhabited.

Notes and citation

Summary: The Orkneys.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (stray dashes): coluntur.-- → coluntur..

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.78 (CSEL 5:29; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-78). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.79CSEL 5:29

Deinde insula Thyle, quae per infinitum a ceteris separata, circium uersus medio sita oceani, uix paucis nota habetur.

Then there is the island of Thule, which, separated from the rest by a boundless distance and lying north-west in the middle of the Ocean, is known to scarcely a few.

Notes and citation

Summary: Thule, known to few.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.79 (CSEL 5:29; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-79). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.80CSEL 5:29

HIBERNIA insula inter Britanniam et Hispaniam sita longiore ab Africo in boream spatio porrigitur.

Hibernia, an island lying between Britain and Spain, extends over a longer distance from south-west to north-east.

Notes and citation

Summary: Ireland lies between Britain and Spain.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.80 (CSEL 5:29; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-80). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.81CSEL 5:29–30

huius partes priores intentae Cantabrico oceano Brigantiam Gallaeciae ciuitatem ab Africo sibi in circium occurrentem spatioso interuallo procul spectant, ab eo praecipue promunturio, ubi Scenae fluminis ostium est et Velabri Lucenique consistunt. haec propior Britanniae, spatio terrarum angustior, sed caeli solique temperie magis utilis, a Scottorum gentibus colitur.

Its nearer parts, facing the Cantabrian Ocean, look from far off across a wide interval toward Brigantia, a city of Gallaecia, which faces it from the south-west toward the north-west, especially from that promontory where the mouth of the river Scena is and where the Velabri and Luceni dwell. This island is nearer to Britain, narrower in extent of land, but more useful for the mildness of its climate and soil; it is inhabited by the peoples of the Scots.

Notes and citation

Summary: Ireland, inhabited by the Scots.

  • The 'Scots' (*Scotti*) of Orosius's day were the Irish.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.81 (CSEL 5:29–30; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-81). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.82CSEL 5:30

Huic etiam Meuania insula proxima est et ipsa spatio non parua, solo commoda. aeque a Scottorum gentibus habitatur. Hi sunt fines totius Europae.

Next to it is the island of Mevania, itself of no small extent and of good soil; it too is inhabited by the peoples of the Scots. These are the boundaries of all Europe.

Notes and citation

Summary: The Isle of Man; the end of Europe.

  • Mevania is probably the Isle of Man.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.82 (CSEL 5:30; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-82). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.83CSEL 5:30–31

AFRICAM ut dixi cum tertiam orbis partem maiores nostri accipiendam descripserint, non spatiorum mensuras sed diuisionum rationes secuti sunt.

When our ancestors described Africa, as I said, as to be reckoned the third part of the world, they followed not measurements of area but principles of division.

Notes and citation

Summary: Africa is a third part by division, not by size.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.83 (CSEL 5:30–31; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-83). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.84CSEL 5:31

mare hoc siquidem Magnum, quod ab occasu ex oceano oritur, in meridiem magis uergens angustiorem inter se et oceanum coartatae Africae limitem fecit.

For this Great Sea, which rises from the Ocean in the west, inclining more toward the south, has made the boundary of Africa, squeezed between it and the Ocean, narrower.

Notes and citation

Summary: The Mediterranean narrows Africa.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.84 (CSEL 5:31; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-84). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).

1.2.85CSEL 5:31

unde etiam aliqui quamuis eam longitudine parem tamen multo angustiorem intellegentes, inuerecundum arbitrati tertiam uocare partem sed potius in Europam Africam deputantes, hoc est secundae portionem appellare maluerunt.

Hence some too, understanding it to be equal in length but much narrower, thought it unfitting to call it a third part, and, assigning Africa rather to Europe, preferred to call it a portion of the second.

Notes and citation

Summary: Some therefore counted Africa as part of Europe.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (stray period): deputantes,. → deputantes,.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.85 (CSEL 5:31; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-85). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.86CSEL 5:31–32

praeterea cum multo amplius terrae in Africa ardore solis quam in Europa rigore frigoris incultum atque incognitum sit — quippe cum omnia paene animantia uel germinantia patientius et tolerabilius ad summum frigoris quam ad summum caloris accedant — ea scilicet causa est, Africam per omnia situ et populis minorem uideri: quia et natura sui minus habeat spatii et caeli inclementia plus deserti. cuius descriptio per prouincias et gentes haec est:

Moreover, since much more land in Africa is uncultivated and unknown because of the heat of the sun than in Europe because of the severity of the cold (for almost all living and growing things approach the extreme of cold more patiently and tolerably than the extreme of heat), this is clearly the reason Africa seems smaller in every respect, in territory and in peoples: both because by its nature it has less space and because by the harshness of its climate it has more desert. Its description by provinces and peoples is as follows:

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Summary: Africa seems smaller because its heat leaves much of it desert.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.86 (CSEL 5:31–32; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-86). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.87CSEL 5:32

LIBYA CYRENAICA ET PENTAPOLIS post Aegyptum in parte Africae prima est.

Libya Cyrenaica and the Pentapolis is the first in the part of Africa after Egypt.

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Summary: Cyrenaica comes first after Egypt.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.87 (CSEL 5:32; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-87). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.88CSEL 5:32

haec incipit a ciuitate Parethonio et montibus Catabathmon, inde secundo mari usque ad aras Philenorum extenditur. post se habet usque ad oceanum meridianum gentes Libyoaethiopum et Garamantum.

It begins at the city of Paraetonium and the Catabathmon mountains, and from there extends along the sea to the Altars of the Philaeni. Behind it, as far as the southern Ocean, it has the peoples of the Libyo-Ethiopians and the Garamantes.

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Summary: Extent of Cyrenaica.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.88 (CSEL 5:32; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-88). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.89CSEL 5:32

huic est ab oriente Aegyptus, a septentrione mare Libycum, ab occasu Syrtes maiores et Trogodytae — contra quos insula Calypso est — a meridie Aethiopicus oceanus.

It has on the east Egypt, on the north the Libyan Sea, on the west the Greater Syrtes and the Trogodytes, opposite whom is the island of Calypso, on the south the Ethiopian Ocean.

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Summary: Boundaries of Cyrenaica.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.89 (CSEL 5:32; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-89). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.90CSEL 5:32–33

TRIPOLITANA prouincia, quae et Subuentana uel regio Arzugum dicitur, ubi Leptis magna ciuitas est, quamuis Arzuges per longum Africae limitem generaliter uocentur, habet ab oriente aras Philaenorum inter Syrtes maiores et Trogodytas, a septentrione mare Siculum uel potius Hadriaticum et Syrtes minores, ab occasu Byzacium usque ad lacum Salinarum, a meridie barbaros Gaetulos Nathabres et Garamantas usque ad oceanum Aethiopicum pertingentes.

The province of Tripolitana, which is also called Subventana or the region of the Arzuges, where the city of Leptis Magna is (although the Arzuges are a general name along a long stretch of the African frontier), has on the east the Altars of the Philaeni between the Greater Syrtes and the Trogodytes, on the north the Sicilian, or rather the Adriatic, Sea and the Lesser Syrtes, on the west Byzacium as far as the Salt Lake, on the south the barbarian Gaetuli, Nathabres and Garamantes, reaching to the Ethiopian Ocean.

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Summary: Boundaries of Tripolitana.

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  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip e for c): prouineia → prouincia.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.90 (CSEL 5:32–33; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-90). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.91CSEL 5:33

BYZACIVM ZEVGIS ET NVMIDIA. Zeugis autem prius non unius conuentus, sed totius prouinciae generale nomen fuisse inuenimus.

Byzacium, Zeugis and Numidia. We find that Zeugis was formerly the general name not of one judicial district but of the whole province.

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Summary: Byzacium, Zeugis, and Numidia.

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  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip O for G): ZEVOIS → ZEVGIS.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.91 (CSEL 5:33; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-91). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.92CSEL 5:33–34

Byzacium ergo ubi Hadrumetus ciuitas, Zeugis ubi Carthago magna, Numidia ubi Hippos regius et Rusiccada ciuitates sunt, habent ab oriente Syrtes minores et lacum Salinarum, a septentrione mare Nostrum quod spectat ad Siciliam et Sardiniam insulas, ab occasu Mauretaniam Sitifensem, a meridie montes Vzarae et post eos Aethiopum gentes peruagantes usque ad oceanum Aethiopicum.

Byzacium, then, where the city of Hadrumetum is, Zeugis, where great Carthage is, and Numidia, where the cities of Hippo Regius and Rusiccada are, have on the east the Lesser Syrtes and the Salt Lake, on the north Our Sea, which faces the islands of Sicily and Sardinia, on the west Mauretania Sitifensis, on the south the Uzara mountains and beyond them the peoples of the Ethiopians, roaming as far as the Ethiopian Ocean.

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Summary: Boundaries of Byzacium, Zeugis, and Numidia.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.92 (CSEL 5:33–34; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-92). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.93CSEL 5:34

SITIFENSIS ET CAESARIENSIS MAVRETANIAE habent ab oriente Numidiam, a septentrione mare Nostrum, ab occasu flumen Maluam, a meridie montem Astrixim, qui diuidit inter uiuam terram et harenas iacentes usque oceanum. in quibus oberrant Gangines Aethiopes.

The Mauretanias Sitifensis and Caesariensis have on the east Numidia, on the north Our Sea, on the west the river Malva, on the south Mount Astrixis, which divides the living land from the sands lying as far as the Ocean; in these the Gangines Ethiopians wander.

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Summary: Boundaries of the two Mauretanias.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.93 (CSEL 5:34; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-93). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.94CSEL 5:34–35

TINGITANA MAVRETANIA ultima est Africae. haec habet ab oriente flumen Maluam, a septentrione mare Nostrum usque ad fretum Gaditanum quod inter Auenae et Calpes duo contraria sibi promunturia coartatur, ab occidente Athlantem montem et oceanum Athlanticum, sub Africo Hesperium montem, a meridie gentes Autololum, quas nunc Galaules uocant, usque ad oceanum Hesperium contingentes.

Mauretania Tingitana is the last of Africa. It has on the east the river Malva, on the north Our Sea as far as the Gaditanian strait, which is narrowed between the two facing promontories of Abenna and Calpe, on the west Mount Atlas and the Atlantic Ocean, on the south-west Mount Hesperius, on the south the peoples of the Autololes, whom they now call Galaules, reaching to the Hesperian Ocean.

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Summary: Boundaries of Mauretania Tingitana.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.94 (CSEL 5:34–35; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-94). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.95CSEL 5:35

Hic est uniuersae terminus Africae. Nunc insularum, quae in Nostro mari sunt, loca nomina et spatia dimetiar.

This is the boundary of all Africa. Now I shall measure the positions, names and sizes of the islands that are in Our Sea.

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Summary: The end of Africa; next the Mediterranean islands.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.95 (CSEL 5:35; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-95). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.96CSEL 5:35–36

INSVLA CYPROS ab oriente mari Syrio, quem Issicum sinum uocant, ab occidente mari Pamphylico, a septentrione Aulone Cilicio, a meridie Syriae et Phoenices pelago cingitur. cuius spatium. in longo tenet milia passuum CLXXV, in lato milia passuum CXXV.

The island of Cyprus is surrounded on the east by the Syrian Sea, which they call the Issic Gulf, on the west by the Pamphylian Sea, on the north by the Cilician Strait, on the south by the sea of Syria and Phoenicia. Its extent is 175 miles in length and 125 miles in breadth.

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Summary: Cyprus.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.96 (CSEL 5:35–36; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-96). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.97CSEL 5:36

INSVLA CRETA finitur ab oriente Carpathio mari, ab occasu et septentrione mari Cretico, a meridie mari Libyco, quod et Hadriaticum uocant. habet in longo milia passuum CLXXII, in lato L.

The island of Crete is bounded on the east by the Carpathian Sea, on the west and north by the Cretan Sea, on the south by the Libyan Sea, which they also call the Adriatic. It is 172 miles in length and 50 in breadth.

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Summary: Crete.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.97 (CSEL 5:36; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-97). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.98CSEL 5:36–37

INSVLAE CYCLADES, quarum est ab oriente prima Rhodos, a septentrione Tenedos, a meridie Carpathos, ab occasu Cythera, ab oriente finiuntur litoribus Asiae, ab occidente mari Icario, a septentrione mari Aegaeo, a meridie mari Carpathio. sunt autem omnes Cyclades numero LIIII. hae tenent a septentrione in meridiem milia passuum D, ab oriente in occasum milia cc.

The Cyclades islands, of which the first on the east is Rhodes, on the north Tenedos, on the south Carpathos, on the west Cythera, are bounded on the east by the shores of Asia, on the west by the Icarian Sea, on the north by the Aegean Sea, on the south by the Carpathian Sea. All the Cyclades number fifty-four. They extend 500 miles from north to south and 200 miles from east to west.

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Summary: The Cyclades.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.98 (CSEL 5:36–37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-98). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.99CSEL 5:37

SICILIA insula. tria habet promunturia, unum quod dicitur Pelorum et aspicit ad aquilonem, cui Messana ciuitas proxima est; secundum quod dicitur Pachynum, sub quo ciuitas Syracusana, respicit ad euronotum; tertium quod appellatur Lilybaeum, ubi et ciuitas eiusdem nominis sita est, dirigitur in occasum.

The island of Sicily has three promontories: one called Pelorus, which looks to the north-east, near which is the city of Messana; the second, called Pachynum, below which is the city of Syracuse, faces south-east; the third, called Lilybaeum, where also a city of the same name lies, points west.

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Summary: The three promontories of Sicily.

  • The digital text prints *Peiorum* for Pelorum.

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  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip i for l): Peiorum → Pelorum.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.99 (CSEL 5:37; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-99). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.100CSEL 5:37–38

haec habet a Peloro in Pachynum milia passuum CLVIIII, a Pachyno in Lilybaeum CLXXXVII. haec ab oriente cingitur mari Hadriatico, a meridie mari Africo quod est contra Subuentanos et Syrtes minores, ab occidente et septentrione habet mare Tyrrhenum, a borea usque subsolanum fretum Hadriaticum quod diuidit Tauromenitanos Siciliae et Bruttios Italiae.

It is 159 miles from Pelorus to Pachynum and 187 from Pachynum to Lilybaeum. It is surrounded on the east by the Adriatic Sea, on the south by the African Sea, which lies opposite the Subventani and the Lesser Syrtes, on the west and north it has the Tyrrhenian Sea, and from the north-east to the east the Adriatic strait which divides the Tauromenitani of Sicily from the Bruttii of Italy.

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Summary: Size and seas of Sicily.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.100 (CSEL 5:37–38; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-100). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.101CSEL 5:38

SARDINIA ET CORSICA insulae paruo fretu hoc est milium xx diuiduntur. ex quibus Sardinia habet a meridie contra Numidiam Caralitanos, contra Corsicam insulam hoc est septentrionem uersus habet Vlbienses.

The islands of Sardinia and Corsica are divided by a small strait, that is, of twenty miles. Of these, Sardinia has on the south, facing Numidia, the people of Caralis, and facing the island of Corsica, that is, toward the north, the people of Ulbia.

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Summary: Sardinia and Corsica.

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  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip T for I): SARDINTA → SARDINIA.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.101 (CSEL 5:38; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-101). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.102CSEL 5:38–39

cuius in longo spatium tenet milia passuum CCXXX, in lato milia LXXX. haec habet ab oriente et borea Tyrrhenicum mare quod spectat ad portum urbis Romae, ab occasu mare Sardum, ab Africo insulas Baleares longe positas, a meridie Numidicum sinum, a septentrione ut dixi Corsicam.

Its extent is 230 miles in length and 80 miles in breadth. It has on the east and north-east the Tyrrhenian Sea, which faces the port of the city of Rome, on the west the Sardinian Sea, on the south-west the Balearic islands lying far off, on the south the Numidian Gulf, on the north, as I said, Corsica.

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Summary: Size and seas of Sardinia.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.102 (CSEL 5:38–39; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-102). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.103CSEL 5:39

CORSICA INSVLA. multis promunturiis angulosa est. haec habet ab oriente Tyrrhenicum mare et portum Vrbis, a meridie Sardiniam, ab occasu insulas Baleares, a circio et septentrione Ligusticum sinum. tenet autem in longo milia passuum CLX, in lato milia xxvi.

The island of Corsica is full of angles with many promontories. It has on the east the Tyrrhenian Sea and the port of the City, on the south Sardinia, on the west the Balearic islands, on the north-west and north the Ligurian Gulf. It is 160 miles in length and 26 miles in breadth.

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Summary: Corsica.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.103 (CSEL 5:39; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-103). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.104CSEL 5:39–40

INSVLAE BALEARES duae sunt, maior et minor, quibus insunt bina oppida, maior Tarraconam Hispaniae ciuitatem, minor Barcilonam septentrionem uersus contra se habent. maiori subiacet insula Ebusos. deinde ab oriente Sardiniam, ab aquilone mare Gallicum, a meridie et Africo Mauretanicum pelagus. ab occasu Hibericum pelagus spectant.

The Balearic islands are two, the greater and the lesser, each with two towns; the greater faces Tarraco, a city of Spain, and the lesser Barcelona, toward the north. Below the greater lies the island of Ebusus. Then they face Sardinia on the east, the Gallic Sea on the north-east, the Mauretanian Sea on the south and south-west, and the Iberian Sea on the west.

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Summary: The Balearic islands.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.104 (CSEL 5:39–40; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-104). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.105CSEL 5:40

Hae sunt insulae ab Hellesponto usque ad oceanum per totum Magnum pelagus constitutae, quae et cultu et memoria magis celebres habentur.

These are the islands set throughout the whole Great Sea from the Hellespont to the Ocean that are held more famous for their cultivation and their renown.

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Summary: These are the chief islands of the Mediterranean.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.105 (CSEL 5:40; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-105). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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1.2.106CSEL 5:40

Percensui breuiter ut potui prouincias et insulas orbis uniuersi. nunc locales gentium singularum miserias, sicut ab initio incessabiliter exstiterunt et qualiter quibusque exortae sunt, in quantum suffecero proferam.

I have surveyed, as briefly as I could, the provinces and islands of the whole world. Now I shall set forth, as far as I am able, the local miseries of each people, as they have arisen unceasingly from the beginning, and how they arose for each.

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Summary: The survey ends; now the miseries of each people.

Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 1.2.106 (CSEL 5:40; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/1-2-106). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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