Strabo is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Strabo in a sentence
Strabo meaning
Ancient Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian from Amaseia in Pontus.
Using Strabo
- The main meaning on this page is: Ancient Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian from Amaseia in Pontus.
- In the example corpus, strabo often appears in combinations such as: strabo strabo, to strabo, in strabo.
Context around Strabo
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 7 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Strabo
- In this selection, "strabo" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, brettanike, teaching, although, iii, himself and used stand out and add context to how "strabo" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include according to strabo 1 1 and according to strabo a large. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "strabo" sits close to words such as abrogation, airman and algonquin, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with strabo
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Greek sources including Strabo Strabo I.3.21. (8 words)
Strabo used Βρεττανική (Brettanike), Strabo's Geography Book I. Chapter IV. (11 words)
Authors such as Strabo, however, write about aboriginal people using nuts and acorns as staple food. (16 words)
Barraclough Lycian League Formation The Lycian League (Lukiakou systema in Strabo's Greek transliterated, a "standing together") is first known from two inscriptions of the early 2nd century BC in which it honors two citizens. (35 words)
According to Strabo (1.1.9), Seleucus was the first to link tides to the lunar attraction, and that the height of the tides depends on the moon's position relative to the sun. (34 words)
Unlike the Aristotelian Xenarchus and Tyrannion that preceded him in teaching Strabo, Athenodorus was Stoic in mindset, almost certainly the source of Strabo's diversion from the philosophy of his former mentors. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
As far as Nemi's Diana is concerned there are two different versions, by Strabo Strabo V 249: αφιδρύματα της ταυροπόλου.
Greek sources including Strabo Strabo I.3.21.
Strabo iii. p. 159) but Artemidorus Ephesius says with more probability that it had none, and scarcely even an anchoring place; and Strabo himself calls it ἀλίμενος main.
Strabo used Βρεττανική (Brettanike), Strabo's Geography Book I. Chapter IV.
Unlike the Aristotelian Xenarchus and Tyrannion that preceded him in teaching Strabo, Athenodorus was Stoic in mindset, almost certainly the source of Strabo's diversion from the philosophy of his former mentors.
According to Strabo (1.1.9), Seleucus was the first to link tides to the lunar attraction, and that the height of the tides depends on the moon's position relative to the sun.
After the loss of their capital, according to Strabo, a large portion of the Boii left Italy.
Although Strabo shows skepticism as to their historicity, the Amazons in general continue to be taken as historical throughout Late Antiquity.
Although Tyrannion was also a Peripatetic, he was more relevantly a respected authority on geography, a fact obviously significant, considering Strabo's future contributions to the field.
At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Strabo and Cato (or, less frequently, year 665 Ab urbe condita ).
Authors such as Strabo, however, write about aboriginal people using nuts and acorns as staple food.
Barraclough Lycian League Formation The Lycian League (Lukiakou systema in Strabo's Greek transliterated, a "standing together") is first known from two inscriptions of the early 2nd century BC in which it honors two citizens.
But Strabo rejects this theory as insufficient to account for all the phenomena, and he proposes one of his own, the profoundness of which modern geologists are only beginning to appreciate.
Classical sources like Strabo mention different "schools" and "doctrines" followed in different places (Babylon, Borsippa, Sippar, Uruk).
Despite Strabo's conviction of a lie, the perimeter said to have been given by Pytheas is not evidence of it.
Despite Xenarchus's Aristotelian leanings, Strabo later gives evidence to have formed his own Stoic inclinations.
Diod. xi. 76; Strabo l. c.) The period that followed appears to have been one of great prosperity for Catania, as well as for the Sicilian cities in general.
Education Strabo studied under several prominent teachers of various specialties throughout his early life He mentions all or most of his teachers as prominent citizens of their own respective cities.
Edwards suggested that the pyramid was entered by robbers after the end of the Old Kingdom and sealed and then reopened more than once until Strabo's door was added.
First-century Jericho is described in Strabo 's Geography as follows: Jericho is a plain surrounded by a kind of mountainous country, which in a way, slopes toward it like a theatre.
Common combinations with strabo
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- strabo strabo 4×
- to strabo 4×
- in strabo 4×
- by strabo 3×
- strabo and 3×
- as strabo 3×
- strabo says 3×
- but strabo 2×
- strabo the 2×
- strabo 's 2×