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Very few of the merchants who now sail from Egypt by the Nile and the Arabian Gulf to India have proceeded as far as the Ganges; and, being ignorant persons, were not qualified to give an account of places they have visited. From one place in India, and from one king, namely, Pandion, or, according to others,1 Porus, presents and embassies were sent to Augustus Caesar. With the ambassadors came the Indian Gymno-Sophist, who committed himself to the flames at Athens,2 like Calanus, who exhibited the same spectacle in the presence of Alexander.

1 κατ᾽ ἄλλους for καὶ ἄλλου.Groskurd.

2 See ch. i. § 73.

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