Historical Disputation on Abaris

they are there by similar custom and location under the name of the Attaci. Others made them the midpoint between the two suns, the setting of the Antipodes and our rising, which can in no way happen with such a vast sea intervening. Those who did not hand down that they were located anywhere but in the half-yearly light, planting in the morning, harvesting at noon, picking the fruits of the trees at sunset, and hiding in caves at night. Concerning which matter, see the one dealing with it more prolixly, Strabo ($π$), Pomponius Mela ($ρ$), Suidas ($σ$), Macrobius ($τ$), Ptolomaeus ($υ$), Luctatius Placidius ($φ$), and Raphael Volaterranus ($χ$).

($ο$) Naturalis Historia, Book IV, ch. XXVI, p. 471, ed. Jo. Harduin, Paris, 1685, 4to, 5 vols.
($π$) Geography, Book XI, p. 507, ed. Paris, 1620, fol.
($ρ$) Book III, ch. V, ed. Jac. Gronovius, Leiden, 1685, 8vo.
($σ$) In the entry Hyperboreans, Vol. III, p. 539, ed. Lud. Kuster, Cambridge, 1705, fol.
($τ$) Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, Book II, ch. VII, ed. Leiden, 1670, 8vo.
($υ$) Table I, ed. Franeker, 1695, fol.
($φ$) To Book V of Statius's Thebaid, v. 300, ed. Paris, 1600, 4to.
($χ$) Geographia, Book VII, p. 221, ed. Paris, 1620, fol.

According to the opinion of many, therefore, it is certain that the Hyperboreans were situated towards the north. However, it is dangerous to designate in which region that people had a fixed seat. Especially since the things that have been handed down in letters by writers about the northern regions, or those situated by the northern ocean, are very unknown and uncertain (which neither Strabo ($ψ$) nor Ptolomaeus ($ω$) denies). There is also a great controversy among learned men concerning the cause for which the race of the Hyperboreans was so called. Diodorus Siculus ($α$) thinks it was called Hyperborean because it was situated outside the blast of Boreas. Rudbeckius ($β$), however, contends that the origin of this name should not be sought from the language of the Greeks, but of the Swedes, persuaded that the Hyperboreans lived among them and were so called from the excellence of their race. For according to his opinion, the most ancient King of the Swedes was called Boreus or Boreas, but from him Oferborne (which