Note 150 — Chapter I · THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
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“Dicaearchus, vir in primis eruditus, regum cura permensus montes, ex quibus altissimum prodidit Pelium MCCL passuum ratione perpendiculari” (Hist. nat., II, 65). Dicaearchus also wrote a treatise on the mountains of the Peloponnesus and of other parts of Greece. See Günther, Bergbesteigungen, 1896.