Solinus, Collection of Memorable Things (Collectanea rerum memorabilium)

Digest of Pliny and Mela that became the medieval source on India: India, its peoples, monsters, Brahmans and gymnosophists, animals, pepper and gems (52); Taprobane (53); the route to India and its ports (54); also Alexander's horse Bucephalus (45) and Bactria (49).

Language

Latin

Date

200–300 CE

Author

C. Iulius Solinus

Text

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