[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Latin](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la) › [Principate (31 BCE – 300 CE)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial) › [Naturalis historia](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder) › 2.244 # Naturalis historia 2.244 Naturalis historia 2.244 - **Language:** Latin ### [2.244](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder.2.244) alia via, quae certior et iniri terreno maxime potest, a Gange ad Euphraten amnem LI.LXIX, inde Cappadociae Mazaca CCXLIIII, inde per Phrygiam, Cariam, Ephesum CCCCXCVIIII, ab Epheso per Aegaeum pelagus Delum CC, Isthmum CCXII.D, inde terra\[et Laconico mari\] et Corinthiaco sinu Patras Peloponnesi XC, Leucadem LXXXVII. D, Corcyram totidem, Acroceraunia LXXXII .D, Brundisium LXXXVII. D, Romam CCCLX, Alpes usque ad Scingomagum vicum DXVIIII, per Galliam ad Pyrenaeos montes IlliberimCCCCLXVIII, ad oceanum et Hispaniae oram DCCCXXXI, traiectu Gadis VII. D, quae mensura Artemidori ratione LXXXIXXLVefficit. > The other way, which is more certain, is chiefly by land. From the Ganges to the Euphrates is 5169 miles; thence to Mazaca, a town in Cappadocia, is 319 miles; thence, through Phrygia and Caria, to Ephesus is 415 miles; from Ephesus, across the Ægean sea to Delos, is 200 miles; to the Isthmus is 212 1/2 miles; thence, first by land and afterwards by the sea of Lechæum and the gulf of Corinth, to Patræ in Peloponnesus, 90 miles; to the promontory of Leucate 87 1/2 miles; as much more to Corcyra; to the Acroceraunian mountains 132 1/2, to Brundisium 87 1/2, and to Rome 360 miles. To the Alps, at the village of Scingomagum, is 519 miles; through Gaul to Illiberis at the Pyrenees, 927; to the ocean and the coast of Spain, 331 miles; across the passage of Gades 7 1/2 miles; which distances, according to the estimate of Artemidorus, make altogether 8945 miles. The breadth of the earth, from south to north, is commonly supposed to be about one-half only of its length, viz. 4490 miles; hence it is evident how much the heat has stolen from it on one side and the cold on the other: for I do not suppose that the land is actually wanting, or that the earth has not the form of a globe; but that, on each side, the uninhabitable parts have not been discovered. This measure then extends from the coast of the Æthiopian ocean, the most distant part which is habitable, to Meroë, 1000 miles; thence to Alexandria 1250; to Rhodes 562; to Cnidos 87 1/2; to Cos 25; to Samos 100; to Chios 94; > — John Bostock & Henry Thomas Riley 1855, The Natural History of Pliny - [Previous: 2.243](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder.2.243) - [Next: 6.51](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder.6.51) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder.2) ## Translations (1) - [The Natural History of Pliny](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder~en-bostock-riley.2.112.2) — John Bostock & Henry Thomas Riley 1855, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder.2.244](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.pliny-elder.2.244) · Pramāṇa