Carmina

Poems

The panegyrics evoke India: the Indian anointed with amomum, a place of Ocean near the far Indians, the Ganges drunk from an Ausonian helmet, Porus' kingdom (2.52, 2.407–48); Indian ivory and the Hydaspes (5.42, 5.284–86); Porus' gaza and Indian pomaria (24.69–72).

Language

Latin

Date

456–469 CE

Author

C. Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius

Text

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