Pliny, GHN
There is a reference to Pliny HN in a book but I cannot find what it means. I searched google. Pliny GHN 5.70. I think it is a typo. Can someone tell me if I am losing my mind? I know the HN normally meant Natural History by Pliny. What is the GHN stand for?
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Geography ?
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I say (guess at) this because I found this...
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Can anyone tell me what the passage GHN 5.70 is in reference to or what Pliny is trying to make in the statement? I don’t have the a copy of the text at hand.
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It's a textual description of the geography of the area. No statement beyond that.
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XV. [70] Beyond Idumaea and Samaria stretches the wide expanse of Judaea. The part of Judaea adjoining Syria is called Galilee, and that next to Arabia and Egypt Peraea. Peraea is covered with rugged mountains, and is separated from the other parts of Judaea by the river Jordan. The rest of Judaea is divided into ten Local Government Areas in the following order: the district of Jericho, which has numerous palm-groves and springs of water, and those of Emmaus, Lydda, Joppa, Accrabim, Jufna, Timnath-Serah, Beth-lebaoth, the Hills, the district that formerly contained Jerusalem, by far the most famous city of the East and not of Judaea only, and Herodium with the celebrated town of the same name.
The source of the river Jordan is the spring of Panias from which Caesarea described later takes its second name.* It is a delightful stream, winding abouta so far as the conformation of the locality allows, [71] and putting itself at the service of the people who dwell on its banks, as though moving with reluctance towards that gloomy lake, the Dead Sea, which ultimately swallows it up, its much-praised waters mingling with the pestilential waters of the lake and being lost.
Pliny the Elder. Natural History: Books III–VII. Translated by H. Rackham. Vol. 2. The Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd, 1961.
Assuming that this is the resource that you are asking about.
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