Mirabilia descripta

XII. HERE FOLLOWETH CONCERNING THE CASPIAN HILLS.

Reading edition

Of the Caspian Hills I say that there they sacrifice sheep upon a cross, and they call themselves Christians, though they are not so, and know nothing of the faith.[178] Among those mountains are more than fifteen different nations.

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · Some trace of the practice here alluded to is to be found among the Nestorians. “Once a year there is a kind of Agapæ to commemorate the dep