De chorographia

Pomponius Mela, Description of the World

Indians, Seres and Scythians as the easternmost peoples (1.11–13); Indians driven by storm to Germany and given to Metellus Celer by the king of the Boii (3.45); India, its size, peoples, rivers Ganges and Indus, the islands Chryse, Argyre and Taprobane (3.61–71).

Language

Latin

Date

43–44 CE

Author

Pomponius Mela

Text

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