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The Natural History, Book 2, chapter 92: Lands which have been totally changed into seas

Pliny the Elder, 1855. Taylor and Francis.

Pliny lists lands carried off by the sea, first "if we are to believe Plato, for an immense space where the Atlantic ocean is now extended", then Acarnania, Achaia and the straits.

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Primary text: Pliny's guarded mention of Atlantis, lost to the sea "if we are to believe Plato".

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Pliny the Elder (1855). The Natural History, Book 2, chapter 92: Lands which have been totally changed into seas. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137:book=2:chapter=92
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