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| | Description of the Canarii, by Pliny the Elder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Suetonius Paulinus*, whom we have seen Consul in our own time, was the first Roman general who advanced a distance of some miles beyond Mount Atlas. |
 | | Or was Suetonius Paulinus an utterly confused man? Did he actually cross the Atlas? |
 | | Suetonius Paulinus, quem consulem vidimus, primus Romanorum ducum transgressus quoque Atlantem aliquot milium spatio, prodidit de excelsitate quidem eius quae ceteri, imas radices densis altisque repletas silvis incognito genere arborum, proceritatem spectabilem esse enodi nitore, frondes cupressi similes praeterquem gravitate odoris, tenui eas obduci lanugine, quibus addita arte posse quales e bombyce vestes confici. |
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