Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Ἰνδικῆς καὶ Μερόης
Fragments on India and Meroe

Name: Fragments on India and Meroe
Author: Basilis the Historian

Period: Ἑλληνιστική Hellenistic

Dialect: Κοινή Koine (fragmentary transmission)

Genre: Ἱστορικὴ Ἀφήγησις Historical Narrative

Basilis the Historian Fragments on India and Meroe PDF

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2	Athenaeus IX: Βάσιλις δὲ ἐν δευτέρῳ τῶν Ἰνδικῶν· «Οἱ μικροὶ, φησὶν, ἄνδρες, οἱ τοῖς γεράνοις πολεμοῦντες, πέρδιξιν ὀχήματι χρῶνται.» Agatharchides De mari Rubro ap. Phot. cod. 250: Τὰ μὲν πρὸς ἑσπέραν ἐξείργασται Λύκος καὶ Τίμαιος, τὰ δὲ πρὸς ἀνατολὰς Ἑκαταῖος καὶ Βασιλεύς.
3	Plinius H. N. VI, 35, de Meroe: Simili modo et de mensura eius varia prodidere (primus Dalion ultra Meroen longe subvectus: mox Aristocreon et Bion et Basilis: Simonides minor etiam, quinquennio in Meroe moratus): nam et Timosthenes, classium Philadelphi praefectus, sine mensura, dierum LX a Syene Meroen iter prodidit; Eratosthenes DCXXV mill., Artemidorus DC mill., Sebosus ab Aegypti extremis cen tena LXXV passuum.