The Classical Accounts of India c23.2

c23.2

Along with his account of the Indian travels of Apollonius of Tyana (above, pp. 383-412) Priaulx published a critical account of the several embassies sent from India to Rome, noted by classical writers. His dissertation on the Indian Embassy to Augustus, the first and the most important one, is reproduced below. Cf accounts of embassies given by Strabo and Dion Cassius and miscellaneous notices about them (above, pp. 282, 451-53).