Historical Dissertation on Abaris

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$(ψ)$ Book IV.
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§. VI.

Among those, however, who affirm that the Hyperboreans existed, there is the greatest controversy in which part of Europe that race chose a 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 about this matter: "Beyond the North Wind," he says, "lives a happy race (if we believe it), whom they called Hyperboreans, living for a long duration, celebrated by fabulous miracles. There, they believe, are the hinges of the world and the extreme circles of the stars, with six months of light and a single day of the sun turned away, not, as the unskilled have said, from the spring equinox to the autumn one. Once a year at the summer solstice the sun rises for them, and once at winter it sets. The region is sunny, of happy temperament, lacking any harmful breath. Their houses are groves and forests, and their worship of the gods is both individual and communal; discord is unknown and all sickness. Death comes only when they have eaten their fill of life and, steeped in luxury through old age, they leap from a certain cliff into the sea. This kind of burial is the most blessed." Some placed them in the first part of the coast of Asia, not in Europe, because