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Updated: May 16, 2025
Apologus is the present Oboleh, on the canal that leads from the Euphrates to Basra. If the author of the Periplus did not enter the Gulf of Persia, he certainly stretched over, with the monsoon, either to Karmania, or directly to Scindi, or to the Gulf of Cambay; for at these places the minuteness of information which distinguishes the journal again appears.
It is impossible to determine from the Periplus, whether the author was personally acquainted with the navigation, ports, and trade of the Gulf of Persia: the probability is that he was not, as he mentions only two particulars connected with it; the pearl fishery, and the town of Apologus, a celebrated mart at the mouth of the Euphrates; the pearl fishery he describes as extending from Moçandon to Bahrain.
A distinct set of Greek expressions, such as -stratioticus-, -machaera-, -nauclerus-, -trapezita-, -danista-, -drapeta-, oenopolium-, -bolus-, -malacus-, -morus-, -graphicus-, -logus-, apologus-, -techna-, -schema-, forms quite a special feature in the language of Plautus. Greek puns likewise occur, as in the -Bacchides- : -opus est chryso Chrysalo-.
A distinct set of Greek expressions, such as -stratioticus-, -machaera-, -nauclerus-, -trapezita-, -danista-, -drapeta-, oenopolium-, -bolus-, -malacus-, -morus-, -graphicus-, -logus-, apologus-, -techna-, -schema-, forms quite a special feature in the language of Plautus. Greek puns likewise occur, as in the -Bacchides- : -opus est chryso Chrysalo-.
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