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168 On the bronze pillars (§ 5).

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169 That is, the dedication to Heracles of a reproduction (in bronze) of the original pillars, with a record of his achievements.

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170 The Heracleium includes both the temple and the sacred precinct of Heracles (cp. § 9 below).

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171 Polybius has said that there was "a spring in the Heracleium"; Poseidonius says "two wells"; but Pliny (2.100) says, "At Gades, which is very near the temple of Heracles, there is a spring, enclosed like a well," to which he ascribes the phenomenon of the inverse-behaviour.

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172 The paradoxes constituted an important part of the teachings of the Stoics; and Strabo was a Stoic.

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173 Strabo considered Athenodorus and Poseidonius the best authorities on the ocean and the tides (1.1.9). He has already compared the sea to animated beings (1.3.. And it was a popular doctrine among the Greek and Roman philosophers that the universe was an animal; and in this way they accounted for the tides (Pomponius Mela 3.1).

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174 See the argument of Strato the physicist and the discussion