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commonplace for lecturers and archaeologists teaching Roman history to have no Latin, and therefore no direct access to the history, literature and graffiti of the period they profess to be experts in. The result is a literal acceptance of published translations, and a distancing between our time and the one we are studying. To a Victorian antiquarian, despite his shortcomings, this would have been regarded as an impossible handicap.
Pytheas might have failed to understand what he had seen, but Strabo was in no better position to make a judgment.
