Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), T, Tanāger, Taprobăné

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（Ταπροβάνη). Now Ceylon; a great island of the Indian Ocean, opposite to the southern extremity of India intra Gangem. The Gauls got their first knowledge of it from the explorations of Megasthenes and Onesicritus in the time of Alexander the Great. In the time of the emperor Claudius an embassy from Rome actually visited it (Ptol.vi. 10, 2; Curt. vi. 4, 24; Pliny , Pliny H. N. vi. 81).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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