Historical Dissertation on Abaris

they are there in a similar custom and situation by the name of the Attaci. Others made them midway between the setting and rising of both our suns and the Antipodes, which can in no way happen with such a vast sea intervening. Those who have handed down that they are nowhere else than in the six-month light, sowing in the morning, reaping at midday, plucking the fruits of the trees at sunset, and hiding in caves at night. Regarding which, for a more prolix discussion, see Strabo $(π)$, Pomponius Mela $(ρ)$, Suidas $(σ)$, Macrobius $(τ)$, Ptolemy $(v)$, Luctatius Placidius $(φ)$, and Raphael Volaterranus $(χ)$.
$(o)$ Natural History, Book IV, c. XXVI, p. 471, ed. Jo. Harduinus, Paris 1685, 4to.
$(π)$ Geography, Book XI, p. 507, ed. Paris 1620, fol.
$(ρ)$ Book III, c. 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 Dream of Scipio, Book II, c. VII, ed. Leiden 1670, 8vo.
$(v)$ Table I, ed. Franeker 1695, fol.
$(φ)$ On Book V of the Thebaid of Statius, v. 300, ed. Paris 1600, 4to.
$(χ)$ Geography, Book VII, p. 221, ed. Paris 1620, fol.

§. VII.

According to the opinion of most, therefore, it is clear that the Hyperboreans were situated toward the north. But it is dangerous to designate in which region that people had a fixed seat. Especially since (which neither Strabo $(ψ)$ nor Ptolemy $(ω)$ denies) the things handed down in writing by authors concerning the northern regions, or those situated by the northern Ocean, are very unknown and uncertain. Also, regarding the reason why the race of the Hyperboreans was so called, a great controversy is engaged in among learned men. Diodorus Siculus $(α)$ thinks it was called Hyperborean because it was situated outside the blast of Boreas (the North Wind). Rudbeckius $(β)$, however, contends that the origin of this name is to be sought not from the Greek language, but from the Swedish language, 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, and from him Oferborne (which word sounds in Latin "Hyperboreans"), since these Hyperboreans were born from that highest stock, he dared to prove with great ingenuity, industry, and many examples taken from the language of the ancient Swedes that that race was so called.