[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Latin](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la) › [Late Antiquity (300 – 700)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.late) › Orosius, Seven Books of History against the Pagans # Orosius, Seven Books of History against the Pagans (Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII) The geography of Asia from the Ganges, India and Taprobane to the Indus (1.2); Semiramis' war on the Indians (1.4); Liber's bloody conquest of India (1.9); Alexander in India — Nysa, Aornus, Porus, the Gangaridae, the Ocean (3.19–20); the division of the satrapies (3.23); the Parthian Mithridates subdues the peoples between Hydaspes and Indus (5.4); Indian and Scythian envoys find Augustus at Tarraco (6.21). - **Language:** Latin - **Date:** 416–418 CE - **Author:** [Paulus Orosius](https://indike.org/pramana/person/orosius) - **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry) ## Versions and retellings - [Orosius (Old English)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.en.orosius) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.late.orosius](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.late.orosius) · Pramāṇa