"Erythraean" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... eastern Asia, and placed the region he called Catigara far to the S.E. of it. Catigara was described by Marinus of Tyre as an emporium and important place of trade. It is not mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.] ...
— History of the Incas • Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
... the name of Daphne. Strabo and Stephanus Byzantinus mention two, the one of Gergae, a little town near Troy, and the other of Mermessus, in the same country. Solinus reckons three; the Delphian, named Herophile, the Erythraean, and the Cumaean. According to Varro, their number amounted to ten, whose names, in the order of time which Pausanias assigns them, were ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes - and Explanations • Publius Ovidius Naso
... Herodotus tells us that both the Phoenicians themselves, and the Persians best acquainted with history and antiquities, agreed in stating that the original settlements of the Phoenician people were upon the Erythraean Sea (Persian Gulf), and that they had migrated from that quarter at a remote period, and transferred their abode to the shores of the Mediterranean.[39] Strabo adds that the inhabitants of certain islands in the Persian Gulf had ...
— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson |
