[13] And as the pens of geographers have drawn it, the whole circuit just described has this form. In the northern direction, to the Caspian Gates 1 it borders on the Cadusii, on many tribes of the Scythians, and on the Arimaspse, wild, one-eyed men. On the west it touches Armenia, Niphates, 2 the Asiatic Albani, the Red Sea, 3 and the Scenitic Arabs, whom men of later times called the Saracens. 4 Under the southern heaven it looks down on Mesopotamia. 5 Opposite the eastern front it extends to the Ganges river, which cuts through India and empties into the southern ocean.
