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Histories, Book 4, chapters 178–185
Herodotus, 1920. Harvard University Press.
Herodotus's itinerary of Libya. The river Triton empties into the great Tritonian lake (4.178); twenty days' journey from the Garamantes, past the Atarantes, by another hill of salt, live the Atlantes, named after Mount Atlas, slender and conical, which the people call "the pillar of heaven" (4.184); the salt ridge runs to the Pillars of Heracles and beyond it Libya is desolate, waterless and rainless (4.185).
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Primary text for Lake Tritonis (4.178), the Atlantes and Mount Atlas (4.184), and the waterless Libya beyond the salt ridge (4.185).
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Herodotus (1920). Histories, Book 4, chapters 178–185. Harvard University Press. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=4:chapter=184
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. “Histories, Book 4, chapters 178–185.” Harvard University Press, 1920.