---
title: Fragments on Geography
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Γεωγραφίας
author: "Eudoxus of Rhodes "
eul_wid: jwo-aa
eul_aid: jwo
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/eudoxus-rhodes-geography-jwo-aa"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Koine (frg)
domain: History
format: Prose
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Fragments on Geography

*Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Γεωγραφίας*

**Author:** Eudoxus of Rhodes 

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## Text

### t1-2

ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΙ.

### 1

Apollonius Mirab. c. 24: Εὔδοξος ὁ Ῥόδιος Περὶ τὴν Κελτικὴν εἶναί τι ἔθνος φησὶν, ὃ τὴν ἡμέραν οὐ βλέπειν, τὴν δὲ νύκτα ὁρᾶν.

### 2.(t)

E LIBRO NONO.

### 2.(t)

Etym. M.: Ἀδρίας, τὸ πέλαγος. Διονύσιος· ὃς πρότερον ἐπὶ τῇ Ὀλυμπιάδι (Δ. ὁ πρότερος ἐπὶ τῇ ϙηʹ ὀλ.?) πόλιν ἔκτισεν Ἀδρίαν ἐν τῷ Ἰωνικῷ κόλπῳ, ἀφ’ ἧς καὶ τὸ πέλαγος Ἀδρίας καλεῖται. Εὔδοξος δὲ ἐν τῇ θʹ τῶν Ἱστοριῶν τὸ πέλαγος καὶ τὴν πόλιν ὀνομασθῆναι Ἀδρίαν φησὶν ἀπὸ Ἀδρίου τοῦ Μεσσαπίου Παύ σωνος.

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