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# 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](https://indike.org/pramana/person/mela)
- **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry)

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.mela](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.mela) · Pramāṇa
