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Book I, chapter 11 —

Ed. Karl Müller, Klaudiou Ptolemaiou Geographikê hyphêgêsis: Claudii Ptolemaei Geographia (1883–1901).

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Philemon, via Marinus [of Tyre], is reported as having said that Ireland (Ἰουερνία, Iwernia) is twenty days in length [width], from east to west. Marinus does not appear to give credit to the accounts of merchants, or at least the one above since Philemon had taken it from merchants.

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# 07 Geographia (Ptolemy)
Philemon, via Marinus [of Tyre], is reported as having said that Ireland (Ἰουερνία, Iwernia) is twenty days in length [width], from east to west. Marinus does not appear to give credit to the accounts of merchants, or at least the one above since Philemon had taken it from merchants.
tr. Philip Freeman, ‘Ireland before St Patrick: § 56. Ptolemy Geography 1.11.7’ in The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales... (2003); frequently discussed, e.g. by Philip Freeman, Ireland and the classical world (2000): 65–67; J. J. Tierney, ‘The Greek geographic tradition and Ptolemy’s evidence for Irish geography’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 76 C (1976): 261–63. A Philemon is also cited indirectly by Pliny in his Naturalis historia
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Philemon ... geographer No associated entry available from the subject index
Marinus of Tyre <strong>Marinus of Tyre</strong> <br>(<em>fl.</em> 1st/2nd c. AD) <br>geographer
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Gk. Ἰουερνία [Iwernia]
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(probable) source: Geography (Philemon)Geography (Philemon)View incoming dataGeography (Marinus of Tyre)Geography (Marinus of Tyre)View incoming data


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