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DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES , author of a Ilepu',' ais Tfis oiKov dv ls, a description of the habitable world in Greek hexameter verse, written in a terse and elegant style. Nothing certain is known of the date or nationality of the writer, but there is some reason for believing that he was an Alexandrian, who wrote in the time of Hadrian (some put him as late
century ). The work
Avienus
Eustathius
The best editions are by G. Bernhardy (1828) and C. Muller (1861) in their Geographici Greeci minores; see also E. H. Bunbury, Ancient Geography (ii. p. 48o), who regards the author as flourishing from the reign of Nero to that of Trajan, and U. Bernays, Studien zu Dion
English
letter
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