Rome
Hercules’s chapel
Hercules’s club
Jupiter Foretrius’s temple
armour of Acron
Venus temple
breastplate decorated with British pearls
gown of pearls valued at 400,000 sestertius belonging to Lollia Paulina, wife of Caius
Alectorius stone
things that resemble one another
a French boy and an Asian boy enslaved to Antony
Roman spoils
by Lucius Sicinius
horsetrappers
pure spears
bracelets
crowns
by Marcus Sergius
a hand of iron
civil crowns
from Thrasymenus
from Trebia
from Pauy
from Canuas
Italy
stony fields in Lombardy
image of Diana of Scythia in Arricia
image of Venus in Laurent
image of Pallas of Diomed in Laurent
burned books of Sybil
burning wood at Mountain Soractee
stones
stone of lynx urine
draws things near
qualifies grief of rains
remedies King’s evil
coral in Ligurian sea
withstands whirlwinds
withstands thunder and lightning
syrtite in Lucania
Veientine stone
Sardinia
silver mines
sardonia herb
still pools full of fish
warm springs
knits broken bones
expels poison of the Shonsunnes
cures diseases of the eyes
blinds thieves
Sicily
fruit of Centuripe
engines of Archimedes
salt
salt of Agrigento
purple salt of Enna
transparent salt of Pachino
musical instruments made of reeds
precentories
vasks
maidenpipes
gingrenes
milvines
Lydians
Corinthians
Egyptians
oil on lake of Agrigento
sacrificial vines on the Vulcan hill
agate
ring of King Pyrrhus with image of nine muses
coral agates of Crete
Indian agate
myrrh-scented agate
clear agate of Cyprus
Greece
fountains of mountain Tomarus
holy well of Epyre
galactite of Nylus and Achelous
makes a nursing woman give milk
makes a child swallow spittle
erases memory
asbestos
honey of Hymet
first garments of fine-spun wool in Ceos
two rivers of Baeotia
one makes sheep’s fleece russet
one makes sheep’s fleece white
Thessaly
altar to Jupiter
objects protected from wind
objects protected from air
Aster’s arrow that blinded the eye of Philip II
Macedonia
great stones at Phlegra
images of gold
to Apollo at Delphos
to Jupiter at Elis
paeantis [garnet]
Thrace
husbands chosen according to their mercantile skills
Crete
first skilled shooting
Pyrrhic dance in armour
invention of music on brass
Idaeus dactylus stone [Belemnite fossils]
Caristos
Hellops hot baths
inflammable fine linen
brass
Paros
Parian marble
sarda stone [carnelian]
Hellespont [Dardanelles]
a bridge of ships made by Xerxes
Ister
beaver testicles
pontica stone [agate or sapphire]
River Borysthenes [Dniepr]
local customs
Neuri worship swords
Gelnoians make clothing and horse armour of human skin
Agathyrses use blue face-paint
Essedons drink out of their neighbours’ skulls bound with gold
Georgians till the land
Axiaces do not covet goods
Satarches condemn use of gold and silver
Scythians drink out of their enemies’ skulls
Caspian Sea
leopard’s bane [genus Aconitum] used to poison panthers
Harts
horns
drive away serpents
show sickness
treat flu
Germany
glowing bird-feathers
cups made of aurochs horns
Scandinavia
crystal
amber
callais [turquoise]
ceraunia [prehistoric stone artefacts]
Britain
swords trimmed with teeth of monsters
keels of wicker and cow’s leather
Silures [Welsh] barter rather than use money
King has nothing but takes of ever man
chapel of Minerva turns coal embers to stone
jet
burns in water
goes out in oil
gives power when warm
absorbs things
Spain
silver
gold
iron
vines
olives
corn
ship’s cables
salt mines
wool dyed with sinople
ceraunia [prehistoric stone artefacts]
lead in the isles of the Cassiterides [Briére marshes]
Libya
down-coloured leaves
euphorbia herb
clears eyesight
expels venoms
flutes
cymbals
Mauritania
cinnabar of dragon’s blood
Numidia [Algeria]
marble
one hundred bears shown at great theatre of Rome by Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus
Africa
stone of the hyena’s eye
gives the power of prophecy
poisons
dipsas kills with thirst
hypnale kills with sleep
heliotrope [bloodstone]
alters colours of sunbeams in a brass pan
makes bearer invisible when mingled with heliotrope herb
nasamonite
Ammon’s horn stone [ammonite fossils]
brings heavenly dreams
ammoniacum [gum-resin] of melons tree
milk of sirpe [silphium resin]
cockatrice carcass hung in net of gold in Temple of Apollo
Nation of the Hammanians [Ghadames, Libya]
houses of salt
carbuncles
Garama [Germa, Libya]
fountain in Debris
cold in daytime
hot at nighttime
Ethiopia
paper made of rushes
Macrobians decked with brass
Heliutrapeza [Meroë] is continually furnished with dainty fare
lake water
makes bodies look anointed with oil
wholesome to drink
so thin that leaves sink to the bottom
stone from dragon brain
cinnamon
jacinth
chrysolamp [peridot]
hematite
Nations of Libya
hexecontalithos stone
Gamphasants abstain from wares and merchandise
Egypt
cup of gold cast into Nile to celebrate birth day of Apis
drink made of Nile skinks
ease numbness of sinews
kill force of poison
fig wood
gates of Thebes [Luxor] where Arabians bring merchandise from all parts of the world
pyramids
Arabia
fountain on Red Sea shore turns sheep’s fleece deep yellow
goat-hair tents of the Scenitæ [Malians]
Eudaemon [Aden]
hill made by hand
spices
frankincense
myrrh
cinnamon-twig nests made by cinnamon birds
Arabians do not buy wares of other nations
stones
sardonyx
malachite
iris [quartz] in the Red Sea
androdamant [fluorite]
pederote [opal]
Jaffa
rock marked by chains of Andromeda
Jewry [Israel]
bitumen from Lake Asphaltites [Dead Sea]
balm [balsam]
apple of Sodom
Rivers Euphrates and Tigris
precious stones
zmilaces [cat’s eye]
sagda
attaches to bottom of ships’ keels
myrrhite
mithridax
tecolithos [solvent stone]
breaks up kidney stones
ammochryse
aetites [hollow geode]
contains a spirit
protects pregnant women from early delivery
pyrite
burns when compressed
chalazias
echites
dionysias
glossopetre [shark tooth]
jewel of the sun
Venus’s hair stone [quartz crystal]
selenite
meconite [oolite]
myrmekite
chalcophthongos
phlogites
anthracias [carbuncle]
enhydros [enhydro agate]
Cilicia
saffron at Corycus
chapel of Jupiter
couch of the Giant Typhon
Lesser Asia [Anatolia]
saffron on mount Tmolus
gold in river Pactolus
Assyria [Mesopotamia]
ointments
Caspian Gates
stones yield moisture that congeals into ice
River Oxus [Amu Darya]
altar of Liber Pater
altar of Hercules
altar of Semiramis
altar of Cyrus
temple of Apollo at Didyma
Seres [Northern Chinese]
silk
eschew foreign merchandise
India
metals
gold soil
silver soil
garments
linen
wool
tree bark
wood
green bay
box
ebony
images of the gods
unpoisonable cups
fountain of Ganges
plants
vines
pepper
calamus
sweet odour
remedy for bowels
gems
diamond
uses
drives away franticness
resists venoms
expels vain fears
source
crystal
impervious to iron and fire
can be broken when steeped in goat’s blood
gold
copper
mines
lychnite [Parian marble]
oriental purple
sheer scarlet
beryl
red and deep blue with green
chrysoberyl
chrysoprase
bastard jacinth
Taprobane [Sri Lanka/Sumatra]
mother pearls
white if water is pure
coloured or stained with red if water is troubled
brighter with morning dew
dimmer with evening dew
precious stones
coins of equal weight stamped with different faces
syrma [skirt]
convicted king is punished with death through forbidding him the use of all things
sea tortoise shell used as a house
golden cups set with jewels
checkered marble
Carmania [Kerman, Iran]
clothing made of fishskin
Persia
gold is bought and buried in Babytace [a city of Persis] to prevent covetousness
units of measure
schemes
parasanges
unknown
Parthia
Pasargadae castle
tomb of King Cyrus
Atlantic islands
ship made of wood covered with leather
venomed darts
skin of Gorgon women hung in the Temple of Juno
reeds as big as trees
black yield bitter liquor
white yield good juice
fields full of fruitful trees
dates
pineapples
honey