As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect, that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Scythian ice, or a frozen sea, so, in this work of mine, in which I have compared the lives of the greatest men with one another, after passing through those periods which probable reasoning can reach to and real history find a footing in, I might very well say of those that are farther off, Beyond this there is nothing but prodigies and fictions, the only inhabitants are the poets and inventors of fables; there is no credit, or certainty any farther.

就像地理学家们，索西乌斯，将他们不熟悉的地球边缘部分挤进地图的边缘，并在边缘添加注释，表明在这些地方之外只有沙漠、野兽、无法接近的沼泽、斯基泰的冰或冰冻的海洋，所以，在我这项工作中，我比较了最伟大人物的生活，经过那些通过合理推理可以达到、真实历史可以立足的时期后，我可能会说那些更远的地方，除了奇迹和虚构之外，别无他物，唯一的居民是诗人和寓言的发明者；那里没有信任，也没有确定性。

Both warriors; that by all the world’s allowed.

他们都是战士；这是全世界公认的。