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to 251 B. C. Metellus defeated Asdrubal in Sicilyy 

 killed six and twenty of his elephants, took one hun- 

 dred and four, and sent them to Rome, with their 

 drivers, who were Hindus. According to the same 

 author, when Hannibal crossed the Rhone 218 

 years B. C. the drivers of his elephants were also 

 Hindus ; and after this period, we find a Hindi word 

 for an elephant introduced into Italy ; for till that 

 time, they called them large oxen. This name was 

 Barrus, or Baro, as it is written by Isidorus,* who 

 says, that it was a Hindu denomination : Baro and 

 Baronem in the objective case, are from the Sanscrit 

 Bdran'a and Baran'am. From Barrus or Baro, the 

 Latins made barritus, to express a noise like that 

 made by an elephant, and also the verb harrire ; and 

 probably the word Bhur is derived from it. 



When Manlius marched, at the head of an army, 

 through Caria and Pamphylia, 1 89 years B. C. he 

 came to the banks of a river, near the fort of Thabu- 

 sion, called the river Lulus, or of the Hindu ; from a 

 Hindu mahot, who fell into it from his elepliant, and 

 was drowned ;f and this was on the borders of the 

 greater Phrygia. Sometime before this, we read in 

 Alciphron's letters, that Hindus of both sexes, in 

 the capacity of servants, were not uncommon in 

 Greece. Several emigrations took place from India, 

 and we find some tribes of Hindus settled in Colchis^ 

 where are ^iwf/M6- to this day ; and Hesychius as- 

 serts, that the Sindi of Thrace came originally from 

 India.'^ When Q. Metellus Celkr was proconsul 

 of Gaul, 59 years B. C. the famous Ariovist king of 



* IsiDOR. de origin. 



+ Tit. liv. lib. XXXVIII. C. 14. 



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