De civitate Dei
Augustine, The City of God
Indians among the nations with wise men (8.9); Porphyry's search for a universal way of liberation, not found 'among the customs and discipline of the Indians' (10.32); the gymnosophists who philosophise naked in the forests of India (14.17) and abstain from procreation (15.20); Ninus ruled all Asia except India (16.17, 18.2, 18.22); Liber's war in India (18.13); Indian stones and the island Tylos (21.4–5).
- Language
- Latin
- Date
- 413–426 CE
- Author
- Aurelius Augustinus
- Text
- not yet digitised (catalogue entry)
Translations (1)
- The City of God — English, not yet digitised