Praeparatio Evangelica (The Preparation of the Gospel)

Eusebius of Caesarea · c. 313-320 AD

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Section 40

CHAPTER XLI — WHICH ARE THE RIGHT AND WHICH THE LEFT SIDES OF THE WORLD.

'PYTHAGORAS, Plato, Aristotle: the right parts of the world are the eastern, from which the motion begins, and the left are the western.

'Empedocles: the right is the region of the summer solstice, and the left the region of the winter solstice.'