Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c7.s1.12

c7.s1.12

Photius concludes his summary with the following words : “ Ktesias, while romancing in this fashion, asserts that his narrative is literally true, and declares that he records nothing which he has not seen with his own eyes, or learnt from the words of many credible witnesses. He adds that he left even greater wonders untold, lest ignorant people might call him a liar!” (*Bibliotheke*, 62. 33). This seems to prove that Ktesias deliberately invented, *pace* Lassen. It is like the tiger which he saw and described.