FIG. 1. Representation of the mode of reducing dislocation of the thigh outwards. A. A lever applied to the nates of the luxated side, and acting from without inwards, in order to bring the head of the bone into its cavity. B. Another lever, held by an assistant, put into one of the grooves of the machine, and intended to act against lever A. c. Groove in which the end of the lever A takes its point of support. D. The luxated member. EE. Extension and counter-extension. 2 2. Representation of the ancient mode of performing succusion as given by Vidus Vidius in the Venetian edition of Galen's works. ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY BY STRABO TRANSLATED BY H. C. HAMILTON, ESQ. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY LIFE OF STRABO BY W. FALCONER, M.A. LATE FELLOW OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD INTRODUCTION LIFE OF STRABO AND SUMMARY OF HIS HISTORY STRABO, the author of this work, was born at Amasia, or Amasijas, a town situated in the gorge of the mountains through which passes the river Iris, now the Ieschil Irmak, in Pontus. He lived during the reign of Augustus, and the earlier part of the reign of Tiberius, but the exact date of his birth, as also of his death, are subjects of conjecture only. Coray and Groskurd conclude, though by a somewhat different argument, that he was born in the year B.C. 66, and the latter that he died A.D. 24. The only information which we can obtain of the personal history of Strabo is to be collected from the scanty references made to himself in the course of this work; for although a writer of the Augustan age, his name and his works appear to have been generally unknown to his contemporaries, and to have been passed over in silence by subsequent authors who occupied themselves with the same branch of study. The work being written in Greek, and the subject itself not of a popular kind, would be hindrances to its becoming generally known; and its voluminous character would prevent many copies being made; moreover, the author himself, although for some time a resident at Rome, appears to have made Amasia his usual place of residence, and there to have composed his work. But wherever it was, he had the means of becoming acquainted with the chief public events that took place in the Roman Empire. It is remarkable that of his father and his father's family he is totally silent, but of his mother and her connexions he has left us some notices. She was of a distinguished family who had settled at Cnossus in Crete, and her ancestors had been intimately connected with Mithridates Euergetes and Mithridates Eupator, kings of Pontus; their fortunes consequently depended on those princes. |