# Aelian 1665: Various History, Book 3

> Aelian, 1665. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Primary text preserving Theopompus's tale of the Meropes and the continent beyond the ocean…

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# Various History, Book 3

Aelian, 1665.

At 3.18 Aelian retells Theopompus's story of Silenus telling Midas of a continent beyond the ocean, its cities Machimus and Eusebes, and the Meropes, whose army of a thousand myriads crossed the ocean and reached the Hyperboreans. Aelian calls Theopompus "an egregious Romancer".

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Primary text preserving Theopompus's tale of the Meropes and the continent beyond the ocean (3.18).

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Aelian (1665). Various History, Book 3. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/aelian/varhist3.xhtml
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