Historical Disputation on Abaris

(χ) Adversaria, Book VI, 15, ed. Frankfurt, 1648, fol.
(ψ) Book IV.
(ω) Book II, p. 129, & Book XI, p. 507, ed. Paris, 1620, fol.
(α) Naturalis Historia, Book IV, ch. XII, p. 439 ff., ed. Jo. Harduin in 5 vols., Paris, 1685, 4to.
(β) Asia, Table VI, VII, VIII, ed. Franeker, 1695, fol.
(γ) Book II, ch. II, ed. Jo. Georg. Graevius, Leiden, 1683, 8vo.
(δ) Book VII, ch. VII, ed. Pitiscus, Utrecht, 1693, 8vo.
(ε) On the Gothick Deeds, ch. V, ed. Guil. Fornerius, Paris, 1588.
(ζ) Vol. I, on the Kingdom of the Asian Scythians, & Vol. II, on the Kingdom of the European Scythians.
(η) Antiquitates Germanicae, Book I, ch. II, ed. Leiden, 1631, fol.
(θ) Geography, Book I, p. 33, & Book XI, p. 507, ed. Paris, 1620, fol.
(ι) Naturalis Historia, Book IV, ch. XI, ed. Harduin, Paris, 1685, 4to, 5 vols.
(κ) Book XIV, ch. II & IV.
(λ) Book IV, ch. XXXII, ed. Th. Gale, London, 1679, fol.
(μ) Geography, Book I, p. 61, in the cited edition.
(ν) De V. & P. in the entry Hyperboreans, p. 727, ed. Jac. Gronovius, Leiden, 1688, fol.
(ξ) In notes to Aelian, Varia Historia, Book II, ch. XXVI, p. 114, ed. Leiden, 1701, 8vo.

§. VI.

Among those, however, who affirm that the Hyperboreans existed, there is the greatest controversy regarding in which part of Europe that race chose its seat for itself. For some place it beyond the Alps, others beyond the North Wind, others in Sweden. Let us hear what Pliny the Elder (o) has to say about this matter: "Beyond the North Wind," he says, "exists a happy race (if we believe it), whom they called the Hyperboreans, living with long life, celebrated by fabulous miracles. There, the hinges of the world and the ends of the circuits of the stars are believed to be. With half-yearly light and a single day of the sun, they are turned away, not, as the unskilled have said, from the vernal equinox to the autumn. Once a year the sun rises for them at the solstice, and once it sets at midwinter. The region is sunny, of happy temper, lacking every harmful blast. Their houses are groves and forests, and they worship the gods individually and in groups. Discord and all sickness are unknown to them. Death does not come except from satiety of life; when they have feasted and have been anointed with old age, they jump into the sea from a certain rock. This kind of burial is the most blessed." Some placed them in the first part of the coast of Asia, not in Europe, because

This passage discusses the geographical uncertainty of the mythical Hyperborean people, citing Pliny the Elder's accounts of their longevity and their supposed "happy" death by jumping from cliffs.