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| Pomponius Mela |
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(p mp ´n s m ´l ) (KEY) , fl. c.A.D. 50, Roman geographer, b. Spain. His De situ orbis, a description of the then known world, was published in Latin in 1471 and translated into English by Arthur Golding as The Cosmographer (1585). |
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