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SCYMNUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 519 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCYMNUS of See also:

Chios, the name assigned to a See also:Greek geographer of uncertain date, commonly taken to be the author of a fragmentary See also:anonymous Paraphrasis in See also:verse describing the See also:northern coasts of the Mediterranean and the shores of the See also:Black See also:Sea, a See also:work which in the first edition (See also:Augsburg, 1600) was ascribed to See also:Marcianus of See also:Heraclea. See also:Meineke showed that this piece cannot be by Scymnus. It is dedicated to a See also:King Nicomedes, probably Nicomedes III. of See also:Bithynia (91–76 B.c.), and so would date from the beginning of the 1st See also:century B.C. Its most valuable portions relate to the Euxine regions and to the Hellenic colonies. of those shores as well as of the coasts of See also:Spain, See also:Gaul and See also:Italy. See Meineke's edition (See also:Berlin, 1846) ; C. See also:Muller, Geographi Graeci minores, vol. i., where the poem is edited with sufficient prolegomena, (pp. lxxiv. lxxvii.) ; E. H. See also:Bunbury, See also:Ancient See also:Geography, i. 99, 100, 102, 128, 183 ; H. 26, 69-74.

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