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AETHICUS (=ETHICUS) ISTER

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 298 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AETHICUS (=ETHICUS) ISTER , "the philosopher of See also:Istria," the supposed but unknown author of a description of the See also:world' written in See also:Greek. An abridgment, under the See also:title of Cosmographia Ethici, written in barbarous Latin, and wrongly described as the See also:work of St See also:Jerome, probably belongs to the 7th See also:century. After a discussion of the creation of the world and a description of the See also:earth, an See also:account of the wonderful journeys of Aethicus is given, with digressions on various subjects, such as See also:Alexander the See also:Great and the See also:kings of See also:Rome,.full of obscure and fabulous details. The name Aethicus is also attached to another See also:geographical See also:treatise probably dating from the 6th century, a See also:reproduction, thus giving, on substitution for v, with some unimportant additions, of the cosmography—little else than a dry See also:list of names—of See also:Julius See also:Honorius.

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