Historical Dissertation on Abaris

$(λ)$ In notes on the Lexicon of Harpocration, p. 83, ed. Jac. Gronovius. Leiden 1696, 4to.
$(μ)$ Book I, On the Life of Pythagoras, c. XIX & XXII, ed. Jo. Arcerius Theodoretus. Heidelberg 1598, 4to.
$(ν)$ Library of Greek Writers, Part I, Book I, c. II, n. VII, p. 10. Hamburg 1705, 4to.
$(ξ)$ Ibid., Part I, Book II, c. XIII, n. I, p. 480.
$(o)$ On how to listen to poets, p. 14, ed. Frankfurt 1620, fol.

§. IV.

All writers profess with unanimous consent that Abaris drew his origin from that most famous race of the Scythians, and by nation from the Hyperboreans. For so says Himerius the Sophist $(π)$: "They say that Abaris the wise was Hyperborean by race." Iamblichus $(ρ)$: "For when Abaris the Scythian came from the Hyperboreans, being inexperienced in Greek education and uninitiated and advanced in age, Pythagoras did not introduce him through varied theories." And Suidas $(σ)$: "Abaris the Scythian, son of Scythes."

$(π)$ Library of Photius, p. 1135, ed. Andr. Schottus. Rouen 1653, fol.
$(ρ)$ On the Life of Pythagoras, c. XIX, p. 92, cited edition.
$(σ)$ In the entry "Abaris".

§. V.

For it must be known that in those most ancient times the region of the Scythians extended far and wide, so much so that it not only encompassed almost all of Europe, but also extended into Asia and included its northern part. (Concerning this magnitude of Scythia, one may see Diodorus Siculus $(τ)$, Strabo $(v)$, Ianus Langlaeus $(φ)$, and Caspar Barthius $(χ)$). From which it came about that, for the sake of better distinction, the most excellent geographers and historians divided the Scythians into European and Asiatic. On this matter, he who desires to see more should go primarily to Herodotus $(ψ)$, Strabo $(ω)$, Pliny $(α)$, Ptolemy $(β)$, Justin $(γ)$, Curtius $(δ)$, Iornandes $(ε)$, and Reinerus Reineccius $(ζ)$. But since we are concerned here only with the European Scythians, I rightly pass over the Asiatic ones. Therefore, as regards European Scythia