Note 732 — OMPHI,
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Livy, the historian, does not scruple to accede to this notion, and to call it [732]umbilicum orbis terrarum. Strabo speaks of it in this light, but with some hesitation. [733]Της Ἑλλαδος εν μεσῳ ΠΩΣ εστι της συμπασης—ΕΝΟΜΙΣΘΗ δη και οικουμενης· και εκαλεσαν της γης ΟΜΦΑΛΟΝ. Varro very sensibly refutes this idle notion in some [734]strictures upon a passage in the poet Manilius to the purpose above.