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    Gaius Julius Solinus, better known simply as Solinus, was a Latin grammarian, geographer, and compiler who probably flourished in the early 3rd century...
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  • Solinus Gaius Julius Vindex, governor of Lusitania Gaius Laelius Gaius Licinius Stolo Gaius Livius Drusus Gaius Lucilius Gaius Lutatius Catulus Gaius...
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    Scythian guards. Sextus Julius Africanus, a chronographer and Christian writer of the early third century. Gaius Julius Solinus, a grammarian and geographer...
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    Pinault, eds. Droz. p. 327. Gaius Julius Solinus Polyhistor § 22.10 {18}. trans. Arwen Elizabeth Apps, Gaius Iulius Solinus and His Polyhistor, Macquarie...
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    not his other principal sources, namely Cassiodorus, Servius, and Gaius Julius Solinus. Etymologiae covers an encyclopedic range of topics. Etymology, the...
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    Sybaris by the Achaeans after their joint founding of that city. Gaius Julius Solinus calls Paestum a Dorian colony and Strabo mentions that Troezen once...
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    Tacitus was referring to Shetland. The third-century Latin grammarian Gaius Julius Solinus wrote in his Polyhistor that "Thyle, which was distant from Orkney...
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  • Solinus may refer to: Gaius Julius Solinus, a 3rd century Latin author Solinus (horse), a British racehorse (1975–1979) Solinus, Duke of Ephesus, a character...
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    Natural History Pliny VI. 21.9-22. 1. Indus and Ganges I 24 Polyhistor Gaius Julius Solinus 52. 6-7. Indus and Ganges I 25 Indica (Arrian) Arrian 6. 2-3. Silas...
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    historical tradition, but also by Pliny the Elder (4.10.39) and Gaius Julius Solinus (9.19), appears to be memory of some Macedonian interference in Iberia...
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  • 2013). United States Naval Observatory. Gaius Julius Solinus, De mirabilibus mundi, c.3, available at [2]. Gaius Plinius Secundus, Natural History, Vol...
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    Strabo based on Asclepiades of Myrlea's words, by Pomponius Mela, by Gaius Julius Solinus (3rd century AD), and would later be reiterated by Camões in his...
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    ancient writers concur in representing it as a very ancient city, with Gaius Julius Solinus and Stephanus of Byzantium ascribing its foundation to Diomedes — this...
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    them in Greek as βίσων bisōn. Roman authors Pliny the Elder and Gaius Julius Solinus used the word bĭson in Latin as well. It was made into a genus name...
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    were those of the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder and geographer Gaius Julius Solinus. In his Natural History Pliny names the Greek geographer Xenophon...
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    species as βόνασος, and both Pliny the Elder's Natural History and Gaius Julius Solinus used Latin: bĭson and bonāsus. Both Martial and Seneca the Younger...
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    without snakes, and this was noted as early as the third century by Gaius Julius Solinus, but later legend credited Patrick with banishing snakes from the...
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    Itinerary pp. 391, 396, 399, 448, 452. Pliny l. c.; Tacitus Ann. i. 78; Gaius Julius Solinus 23, 26; Polybius x. 34; Livy xxi. 61; Stephanus of Byzantium p. 637...
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    of the Indian Ocean. Canopus is described by Pliny the Elder and Gaius Julius Solinus as the largest, brightest and only source of starlight for navigators...
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    bird. According to Claudius Aelianus in De Natura Animalium, and Gaius Julius Solinus, both quoting much earlier but now lost authors, the sacred ibis...
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  • historical tradition, but also by Pliny the Elder (4.10.39) and Gaius Julius Solinus (9.19), appears to be memory of some Macedonian interference in Iberia...
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    consists of gold and silver, I am not so willing to believe that." Gaius Julius Solinus mentioned the islands in his work Polyhistor. He also mentioned that...
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    xxxv. 19. s. 59; Varro, R. R. iii. 12; Aelian, H. A. xiii. 15; Gaius Julius Solinus 26. Pliny xxx. 6. s. 15. Pliny xxxv. 6. s. 13; Vitruv. vii. 7. Materia...
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    Sabine Hills. The city offers a wide view over the Roman Campagna. Gaius Julius Solinus cites Cato the Elder's lost Origines for the story that the city...
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    from Italy, while the third came from Troy. Pliny the Elder and Gaius Julius Solinus also mention the Sicani, among the peoples of the Mount Albanus league...
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    territory under their control. The change of 227 is reported by Gaius Julius Solinus: The two islands under the control of Rome were made provinces in...
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    Learned). Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (Cassius Dio), Roman History. Gaius Julius Solinus, De Mirabilis Mundi (On the Wonders of the World). Marcus Minucius...
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    28. § 4 Conon, Narr. 43 Philostr. Vit. Apoll. v. 17 Gaius Julius Solinus 5. § 15 Gaius Julius Hyginus 25 Valerius Maximus v. 4. Ext. § 4 Lucil. Aetn...
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  • plain above the lakes Hyria and Trichonida. Pliny the Elder and Gaius Julius Solinus erroneously call Aracynthus a mountain of Acarnania. If we can trust...
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    Project (CISP) on-line database". Gaius Julius Solinus Polyhistor § 22.7 {9}. trans. Arwen Elizabeth Apps, Gaius Iulius Solinus and His Polyhistor, Macquarie...
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