Historical Disputation on Abaris

dialect and are very intimately disposed towards the Greeks, and especially towards the Athenians and the Delians, having received this goodwill from ancient times. As for what remains, whoever desires to see more about the Hyperboreans should approach primarily Diodorus Siculus ($δ$), Plutarch ($ε$), Aelian ($ζ$), Clement of Alexandria ($η$), Pindar ($θ$), Pausanias ($ι$), Herodotus ($κ$), Servius ($λ$), Rudbeckius ($μ$), and Jacobus Perizonius ($ν$). Pliny the Elder ($ξ$) reports that the Hyperboreans are not subject to diseases and laborious old age. Strabo ($o$), however, contends that these things are fabulous. Ovid ($π$) narrates that it is the rumor that the Hyperboreans are changed into birds.

($γ$) Antiquitates, Book II, p. 130, ed. Laur. Rhodomannus, Hanover, 1604, fol., and p. 91, ed. Heinr. Stephanus, 1570, fol.
($δ$) Book III, ch. II, ed. Rhodomannus, just cited.
($ε$) Book on Music, p. 1136, ed. Frankfurt, 1620, fol., Vol. II.
($ζ$) Varia Historia, Book III, ch. I, ed. Jac. Perizonius, Leiden, 1701, 8vo.
($η$) Protrepticus, p. 8, ed. Cologne, 1688, fol.
($θ$) Pythian Odes X, v. 46, p. 301, ed. Oxford, 1696, fol., and you can consult the Greek interpreter on this passage. Also Olympian Odes III, at the beginning.
($ι$) Book I, ch. XXXI, p. 77; Book V, ch. VII, p. 392; and Book X, ch. V, p. 809, ed. Leipzig, 1696, fol.
($κ$) Book IV, ch. XXXIII, ed. Th. Gale, London, 1679, fol., and p. 143, ed. H. Stephanus, 1570, fol.
($λ$) Book XI.
($μ$) Atlantica, p. 761.
($ν$) In notes to Aelian's Varia Historia, Book II, ch. XXVI, p. 114, and Book III, ch. I.
($ξ$) Naturalis Historia, Book IV, ch. XXXVI, p. 472, ed. Jo. Harduin, Paris, 1685, 4to, 5 vols.
($o$) Geography, Book XV, p. 711, ed. Paris, 1620, fol.
($π$) Metamorphoses, Book XV, v. 356, p. 748, ed. Corn. Schrevelius, Leiden, 1661, 8vo, Vol. III.

§. IX.

After I have discussed the fatherland of Abaris up to this point quite prolixly, I now believe I must perceive clearly above all else about the age and time in which Abaris was among the living. Since, however, all those things which we read to have been consigned to letters by the ancient investigators of chronological reasoning are very obscure as well