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Aristotle, Plato, and Ephorus
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Ephorus (quoted by Strabo)offers the insight that the Celts are careful to avoid becoming fat orpot-bellied and a young man is punished if his stomach hangs overhis belt.
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Elsewhere Strabo tells usthat Ephorus believed Celtica to be so large that it included most ofIberia as far as Gades (Cadiz).
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‘Tf the heavens and earth are divided into four parts, the Indians willoccupy the land of the east wind, the Ethiopians the regions fromwhich the south wind blows, the Celts the west, and the Scythiansthe land of the north wind.’ This was the world view of Greekhistorian Ephorus of Cymae, whose great work Universal History,in thirty books, was written in the first half of the fourth century Bc.The original text has long since disappeared but this particularscrap survives as a quotation in Strabo’s Geography (1.2.28),compiled nearly three centuries later.
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