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Dionyiius is fuppofed to have lived after Domitian, 
and before Severus s . He wrote a defcription of the 
world in Greek verfe, which it may be fuppofed he 
had finifhed before the reign of Trajan, or at leaft 
that he had not heard of the increafe of geographical 
knowledge which took place at that time, for he 
was as little acquainted with the country beyond the 
Ganges, as thofe who are fuppofed to have been his 
predeceffors, and only mentions it as an ifland remar- 
kable for the diflin&nels with which the fun-rifmg 
was obferved. 
Xgutretyv rot vvj vov ciyet 'zrogog, ei iQct uca ctvjou 
A vJoMvj KuQciQOiO (paeivzjoa yjtXioio. 
Dionyf. Perieg. p. 1 1 1. 
Ptolemy flourifhed under Adrian, and Antoninus ; 
and made his laft aftronomical obfervation on a 
Wednefday, the 2d of February, in the year 141 r . 
He has taken notice of many places not mentioned 
any where elfe, and is the firft who has called Ma- 
lacca a peninfula. Marinus indeed, whom he quotes 
as a late author, knew likewife that it was foj which 
{fill more confirms the fuppofition, that this was 
found out in Trajan’s reign. 
Ptolemy’s works evidently fhew, that his know- 
ledge was fuperior to that of all the other antient 
geographers 3 and his living in /Egypt gave him ma- 
r Dodwell, in Geog. vet. 
3 Univerfal Hift. Vol. XV. p. 206. 
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