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File AvailableCtesias Cnidus no year known Indica, caput 25 & 26
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Indica

Written about 398 BC
Work preserved in abstracts made by Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople in 9th century.

Translated by McCrindle 1973


Caput 25.
Among the Indians, there are wild asses as large as horses, some being even larger. Their head...
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File AvailableCallisthenes (Pseudo) no year known The Romance of Alexander the Great, cap. 224
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File AvailableApollinaris Sidonis no year known Panegyriken, IX 338
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File AvailableHerodotus no year known History, liber iv, Melpomene, CXCL
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File AvailableOppianus no year known Kynegetika, I. 68 & II. 551 & IV. 35
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File AvailablePausanias no year known Description of Greece. Booetica, pars 5, liber 9, caput 21
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File AvailablePhotius no year known Myrobiblion sive bibliotheca, 891 XXXVI
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Myrobiblon sive Bibliotheca



891

Cap. XXXVI. De Rhinocerote

Rhinoceros vastitate quidem non minor, sed altitudine inferior est elephanto, buxique refert colorem, pellis etiam contactu tenuior. Is repandum in naribus fert cornu ad ferri vim et rigorem p...
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File AvailableStrabo no year known Geography, XVI. 4 15
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File AvailableAristotle no year known Historia Animalium, II, 1, 499b 'Indian Ass'
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File AvailableAristotle no year known De partibus animalium, 663a 'Indian Ass'
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