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On Harbors is a lost Greek geographical work by Timagetus, an author of uncertain date of whom little is known beyond these citations. Its fragments survive mainly in the scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, which report that Timagetus made the Istros (Danube) rise in the Celtic mountains and divide into two streams, and that the Argonauts sailed home by that route. Two further citations name a Demagetus, a variant that editors assign to Timagetus.
The scholia state that Apollonius followed Timagetus in plotting the Argonauts' return voyage, so these fragments help reveal the sources of the Argonautica and the learning behind it. They also show how early Greek geographers, with little direct knowledge, pictured the great river systems of northern and central Europe.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: FHG IV, Timagetus fr. 1–6). Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ).