Ex his autem rebus sunt nonnulla, quae ego per me perspexi, cetera in libris graecis scripta inveni, quorum scriptorum hi sunt auctores: Theophrastos, Timaeus, Posidonios, Hegesias, Herodotus, Aristides, Metrodorus, qui magna vigilantia et infinito studio locorum proprietates, aquarum virtutes ab inclinatione caelique regionum qualitates ita esse distributas scriptis dedicaverunt.
Of these facts there are some which I have observed myself; others I have found recorded in Greek works of which I name the authors: Theo-phrastus, Timaeus, Posidonios, Hegesias, Herodotus, Aristides, Metrodorus. These writers, with close attention and unlimited pains, have declared the properties of localities, the virtues of different waters, and by reference to climate, the distribution of regional qualities.
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