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Roman Ship?
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I stumbled across something interesting last night.

Quote:Britain is the largest island known to Romans: as regards its extent and situation it faces Germany on the east, Spain on the west(1)...

(1) The error of conceiving Spain as west of Britain, in spite of the testimony of the explorer Pytheas (c. 325 BC) accepted by Eratosthenes (c. 250 BC), lasted until the second century after Christ.

Tacitus, Agricola, 10, Note by Hutton and / or Ogilvie in Loeb Classic Library Tacitus I

This is wild speculation, but if they thought Spain was west of Britain could it be possible that some enterprising merchant thought of taking British tin to Spain and sailed due west around Ireland?
David J. Cord
www.davidcord.com
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Roman Ship? - by Quintis Antonius Felix - 03-10-2009, 12:47 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by jkaler48 - 03-10-2009, 06:07 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Gaius Julius Caesar - 03-11-2009, 12:33 AM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Quintis Antonius Felix - 03-11-2009, 12:13 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Quintis Antonius Felix - 03-11-2009, 12:35 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by M. Demetrius - 03-11-2009, 01:21 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Quintis Antonius Felix - 03-11-2009, 03:57 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Matthew Amt - 03-11-2009, 04:12 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by texascavtrooper - 03-11-2009, 04:28 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Quintis Antonius Felix - 03-11-2009, 04:43 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Quintis Antonius Felix - 03-11-2009, 04:44 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Sallustius Metellus - 03-11-2009, 04:49 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by texascavtrooper - 03-12-2009, 05:06 AM
Re: Roman Ship? - by M. Demetrius - 03-12-2009, 12:13 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Quintis Antonius Felix - 03-12-2009, 12:20 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Quintis Antonius Felix - 03-12-2009, 12:51 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Tiberius Clodius Corvinus - 03-12-2009, 01:00 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Quintis Antonius Felix - 03-12-2009, 04:08 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Matthew Amt - 03-12-2009, 08:41 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by jkaler48 - 03-12-2009, 09:02 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Quintis Antonius Felix - 03-13-2009, 12:21 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Nerva - 03-13-2009, 02:00 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Sallustius Metellus - 03-13-2009, 03:33 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Matthew Amt - 03-13-2009, 03:53 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Quintis Antonius Felix - 03-13-2009, 03:58 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Tiberius Clodius Corvinus - 03-13-2009, 07:25 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by M. Demetrius - 03-13-2009, 09:22 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Quintis Antonius Felix - 03-16-2009, 12:08 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Marcus F. - 03-17-2009, 02:25 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Quintis Antonius Felix - 03-18-2009, 04:32 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Quintis Antonius Felix - 03-26-2009, 01:47 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Gaius Julius Caesar - 03-26-2009, 03:23 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Quintis Antonius Felix - 03-26-2009, 04:43 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by jkaler48 - 03-26-2009, 04:50 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Gaius Julius Caesar - 03-26-2009, 08:59 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Tiberius Clodius Corvinus - 03-26-2009, 09:26 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Gaius Julius Caesar - 03-26-2009, 09:37 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Tiberius Clodius Corvinus - 03-26-2009, 11:53 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by jespah2000 - 03-27-2009, 01:11 AM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Tiberius Clodius Corvinus - 03-27-2009, 12:02 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Gaius Julius Caesar - 03-27-2009, 12:55 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Quintis Antonius Felix - 03-27-2009, 02:06 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Epictetus - 12-16-2009, 08:35 AM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Jasper Oorthuys - 12-16-2009, 11:45 AM
Re: Roman Ship? - by MD - 12-16-2009, 09:49 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Epictetus - 12-17-2009, 05:20 AM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Gorgon - 12-18-2009, 02:45 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Gorgon - 12-18-2009, 02:49 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by M. Demetrius - 12-18-2009, 03:09 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Gorgon - 12-19-2009, 12:58 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by SvenLittkowski - 01-09-2010, 11:07 AM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Gaius Julius Caesar - 01-09-2010, 11:41 AM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Markus Montanvs - 01-09-2010, 07:08 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Gaius Julius Caesar - 01-09-2010, 07:12 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Iagoba - 01-11-2010, 11:31 AM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Gaius Julius Caesar - 01-12-2010, 10:19 AM
Re: Roman Ship? - by aquilifer - 01-15-2010, 10:37 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Ron Andrea - 01-16-2010, 12:38 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Gaius Julius Caesar - 01-16-2010, 12:48 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Ron Andrea - 01-16-2010, 01:02 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by Gaius Julius Caesar - 01-16-2010, 01:05 PM
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Roman Ship? - by Ben Kane - 11-19-2010, 09:45 AM
Re: Roman Ship? - by M. Demetrius - 11-19-2010, 12:52 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by john m roberts - 11-19-2010, 03:48 PM
Re: Roman Ship? - by M. Demetrius - 11-19-2010, 04:17 PM
RE: Roman Ship? - by SvenLittkowski - 09-24-2017, 01:38 AM

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