Strabo

[ strey-boh ]

/ ˈstreɪ boʊ /

63? b.c.–a.d. 21?, Greek geographer and historian.

Example sentences from the Web for strabo

The mouse-name ‘Smintheus’ was given to Apollo in all the places mentioned by Strabo, ‘and many others.’

Custom and Myth |Andrew Lang
Strabo speaks of the practice, as if it subsisted in his time.

A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) |Jacob Bryant
Early Greece worshipped an oak tree, which Strabo, however, assures us was a beech.

Myths of the Rhine |X. B. Saintine
In this last interval are the six islands of which Strabo speaks.

The Geography of Strabo, Volume III (of 3) |Strabo

Strabo's—or rather Artemidorus'—parallel is the same as that of the Orphic poem, and, probably, is referrible to the same source.

The Ethnology of the British Islands |Robert Gordon Latham

Strabo

/ (ˈstreɪbəʊ) /

?63 bc –?23 ad, Greek geographer and historian, noted for his Geographica