Historical Dissertation on Abaris

continues from previous page: are there with a similar custom and location by the name of the Attaci. Others made them the midpoint between the sunset of the antipodes and our own rising, which cannot happen in any way with such a vast sea intervening. Those who did not place them anywhere but in the six months of light reported that they sow in the mornings, harvest at midday, pluck the fruit of trees at sunset, and are hidden in caves at night. Regarding this matter, see Strabo ($π$), Pomponius Mela ($ρ$), Suidas ($σ$), Macrobius ($τ$), Ptolemy ($υ$), Luctatius Placidius ($φ$), and Raphael Volaterranus ($χ$).

According to the opinion of most, therefore, it is certain that the Hyperboreans were situated toward the north. But to designate in what region that people held a fixed seat is dangerous. Especially since what has been handed down in writing by authors regarding the northern regions or those situated at the northern Ocean is very unknown and uncertain (which neither Strabo ($ψ$) nor Ptolemy ($ω$) denies). There is also a great controversy among learned men regarding the cause for which the nation of the Hyperboreans was so called. Diodorus Siculus ($α$) believes that it was called Hyperborean for this reason, 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 Greek language, but from that of the Swedes Sueonum 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 came Oferborne over-born (the etymological root of Hyperborean according to Rudbeckius),