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Updated: June 26, 2025
He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could but get me an Indian dancing-girl, and Thygelion of Chaeronea if he could bring me a Greek courtesan; for, oh, ladies! there were Bombardas in Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, and nothing new; nothing more unpublished by the creator in creation!
The era is computed variously...." After having given a short account of the different coinages and currencies, which is interesting, but of which the various localities are left to the imagination, he writes: "The natives of Central India make use of the ballistae, and those machines which we call bombardas, also other warlike implements adapted for besieging cities.
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