Note 387 — Chapter IV · CELSUS: MELA: MISCELLANEOUS LEARNING
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Current literary histories (Teuffel, 296, 1; Schanz, 443) combine this passage (III. 49) with Mela’s alleged mention of Thia (II. 111), an island which first appeared in A.D. 46, to prove a later date. But Wissowa, Herm., li. (1916), p. 89 sqq., distrusts the reading in II. 111, and argues that the future in triumpho declaraturus makes it imperative to take the triumph as a terminus ante quem. He rejects 46 and believes the beginning of 44 to be the date of composition.