Note 1181 — Chapter VIII · PHILOSTRATUS’S LIFE OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
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III, 47; VI, 25. Scylax was a Persian admiral under Darius who traveled to India and wrote an account of his voyages. The work extant under his name is of doubtful authorship (Isaac Vossius, Periplus Scylacis Caryandensis, 1639), but some date it as early as the fourth century B.C.