In their geographies, Socius Senecio, researchers squeeze the things which elude their knowledge into the edges of their maps and write in explanations: "the places beyond this point are waterless deserts full of wild beasts" or "unseen mud" or "Scythian cold" or "frozen sea".
(Plutarch's Life of Theseus 1.1)
Compare the conclusion to Tacitus' Germania:
What further accounts we have are fabulous: as that the Hellusians and Oxiones have the countenances and aspect of men, with the bodies and limbs of savage beasts. This, as a thing about which I have no certain information, I shall leave untouched.
