But under the strictest etymology - the Greek auto means "self" and the Latin mobilis means "mobile" - the riding car was the first automobile.

但是如果按照严格的词源学——希腊语中‘auto’意为“自己”，拉丁语的“mobilis”意为“移动的”，那么骑式双轮车可算是第一辆自动车。

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The chief librarians of ancient Alexandria included Eratosthenes (of Byzantium), who determined that the earth was round and measured its circumference, Callimachus, whose catalogue established the canon of Greek classics, and the lexicographer Aristophanes, who pioneered the science of etymology.

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