a celebrated Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian, was born at Amasia, and was descended from a family settled at Gnothiis in Crete. He was the disciple of Xenarchus, a Peripatetic philosopher, and at length attached himself to the Stoics. He contracted a strict friendship with Cornelius Gallus, governor of Egypt, and travelled into several countries to observe the situation of places, and the customs of nations. He flourished under Augustus, and died under Tiberius about the year 25, in a very advanced age.—He composed several works, all of which are lost except his Geography in 17 books; which are justly esteemed very precious remains of antiquity. The two first books are employed in showing, that the study of geography is not only worthy of, but even necessary to, a philosopher; the third describes Spain; the fourth, Gaul and the Britannic isles; the fifth and sixth, Italy and the adjacent isles; the seventh, which is imperfect at the end, Germany, the countries of the Gete and Illyrii, Taurica Chersonesus, and Epirus; the eighth, ninth, and tenth, Greece with the neighbouring isles; the four following, Asia within Mount Taurus; the fifteenth and sixteenth, Asia without Taurus, India, Persia, Syria, Arabia; and the seventeenth, Egypt, Ethiopia, Carthage, and other places of Africa. Strabo's work was published with a Latin version by Xylander, and notes by Isaac Cabaubon (or rather by Henry Scrimmier, from whom Cabaubon chiefly stole them), at Paris, 1620, in folio. But the best edition is that of Amsterdam in 1707, in two volumes folio, by the learned Theodore Janfoniis ab Almlooveen, with the entire notes of Xylander, Cabaubon, Meursius, Cluver, Holstenius, Salmius, Bochart, Ez. Spanheim, Cellarius, and others. To this edition is subjoined the Chrestomathia, or epitome of Strabo; which according to Mr Dodwell, who has written a very elaborate and learned dissertation about it, was made by some unknown person between the years of Christ 676 and 996. It has been found of some use, not only in helping to correct the original, but in supplying in some measure the defect in the seventh book. Mr Dodwell's dissertation is prefixed to this edition.