Message #20011

[Bianca]

161 See 1.1.17.

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162 See 17.3.20, where Strabo gives the place a different position, namely, on the coast of the Greater Syrtis, i.e. on the Gulf of Sidra. These altars were said to have been erected at the boundary between the Carthaginian Empire and Cyrenaica by the Carthaginian in honour of the two Philaeni brothers, who, in order to settle the boundary favourably for Carthage, had given themselves up to be buried alive in the sand at the boundary (Sallust Jugurtha 79). Pliny (5.4) says that the altars were of sands, thus implying that the altars were merely the sand-heaps over the two bodies.

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163 The Aeolians and Dorians (see 8.1.2).

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164 Plutarch (Theseus 25) also quotes the couplet, and says that the pillar was set up by Theseus. Strabo gives a fuller account in 9.1.6‑7.

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165 Alexander set up twelve altars in honour of the twelve gods (Diodorus Siculus 17.95).

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166 On the occasion of Alexander's Indian campaign.

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167 Specifically Strabo has in mind Calpe and Abilyx.

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