PROLEGOMENA.

Therefore, we believe that a book was also written by Agrippa, in which he explained the map he wished to be made and added things which could not be indicated on it. 1 This book, which Carolus Mannert 2 and those who followed him, Frand-

1) Thus it was also done on the map in the portico at Augustodunum, depicted 'for the sake of educating youth,' about which Eumenius writes in his speech for the restoration of schools, chapter 20: 'The sites, spaces, and intervals of all places are described with their own names, whatever rivers rise or end anywhere, wherever the bays of the shores bend, by what circuit the ocean surrounds the world or breaks in with force.' 'Now at last it is a pleasure to view the world depicted, when we see nothing in it that is foreign.' He refers to the intervals of places near each other. — Mommsen also says that river measurements were not indicated on the map, l. infra l. p. 103. — There was another map of a later age, 'the pinax tablet/map of Dionysius briefly comprehended,' in which, as Cassiodorus wrote to his monks in the passage cited below, 'what you perceive by hearing in the aforementioned book, you may see almost with your own eyes looking on.'

2) To this book I also think those things belong which Strabo brought forward from the chorographus geographer; however, the matter is different where the ὁ χωρογραφικὸς πίναξ the chorographical map is praised by Strabo, cf. frg. c p. 1. I am not sure if I received this passage wrongly; if it truly pertains to Agrippa's work, it could be an argument that Strabo saw Rome even in the later years of his life.

3) Peutinger Table ed. C. Mannert, Leipzig 1824, p. 8 sq. He relies on the passages of Vegetius III 6 and Suetonius Domit. 10, which he misunderstood; for the former says nothing except that itinerary maps should be used by military commanders, the latter does not speak of the map itself, but reports how the suspicious use of a map was, among other things, the cause of the destruction of Pompusianus.