Gaius Julius Solinus, better known simply as Solinus, was a Latin grammarian, geographer, and compiler who probably flourished in the early 3rd century AD. Historical scholar Theodor Mommsen dates him to the middle of the 3rd century.
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As far as reason would allow, this book has been designed with a view to brevity; moderately abridged, it has neither a wasteful abundance nor a detrimental beauty of style.
Polyhistor, prologue, secs. 2-4; translated by Arwen Apps, Gaius Iulius Solinus and his Polyhistor, PhD thesis, Macquarie University (2011)
Those who imitate the shapes of bodies, setting the rest aside, figure the head before determining the lines of the other limbs.
Polyhistor, prologue, sec. 7; translated by Arwen Apps (2011)
Father Bacchus was the first who invaded India, and was the first of all who triumphed over the vanquished Indians.
Polyhistor, ch. 52, sec. 5; extract translated by J. W. McCrindle, Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian (London: Trübner &
Writers born in the 300s 6
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