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title: Fragments on India and Meroe
title_greek: Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Ἰνδικῆς καὶ Μερόης
author: Basilis the Historian
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period: Hellenistic
dialect: Koine (frg)
domain: History
format: Prose
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---

# Fragments on India and Meroe

*Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Ἰνδικῆς καὶ Μερόης*

**Author:** Basilis the Historian

**eul_wid:** `ido-aa` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/basilis-india-meroe-ido-aa)

## Text

### t1-3

ΙΝΔΙΚΑ. E LIBRO SECUNDO.

### 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.

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