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“As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Theseus.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c83aaabf5a4997cad2a7656b4f8f5e9c0d957d91b50ba1a8104550949da8443d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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