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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4524441, member: 99456"]It is impressive how a CT crowd, no matter what the topic, can assemble in hours an interesting and beautiful collection of coins and information!</p><p><br /></p><p>Although I haven't done any technical climbing in many years, your posts do inspire at least a vigorous hike in the woods - no mountains anywhere near. Thanks for the additional information and the story of the ill-fated couple that gave the mountain its veil of snow. </p><p><br /></p><p>Strabo in general doesn't <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/12B*.html#p361" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/12B*.html#p361" rel="nofollow">describe Caesarea</a> as an appealing place: "the country is perilous for most people, and especially for cattle, since they fall into the hidden fire-pits." As he wrote in the late 1st century BC to early AD, Cappadocia was likely a less developed place than it was in the 3rd century - Roman roads, trade-routes, and urban development progressing for centuries.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4524441, member: 99456"]It is impressive how a CT crowd, no matter what the topic, can assemble in hours an interesting and beautiful collection of coins and information! Although I haven't done any technical climbing in many years, your posts do inspire at least a vigorous hike in the woods - no mountains anywhere near. Thanks for the additional information and the story of the ill-fated couple that gave the mountain its veil of snow. Strabo in general doesn't [URL='http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/12B*.html#p361']describe Caesarea[/URL] as an appealing place: "the country is perilous for most people, and especially for cattle, since they fall into the hidden fire-pits." As he wrote in the late 1st century BC to early AD, Cappadocia was likely a less developed place than it was in the 3rd century - Roman roads, trade-routes, and urban development progressing for centuries.[/QUOTE]
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