Pomponius Mela mentions it among the small towns of the district, probably as it was eclipsed by its neighbour Tarraco ( modern Tarragona ), but it may be gathered from later writers that it gradually grew in wealth and consequence, favoured as it was with a beautiful situation and an excellent harbour.

In 25 AD, Pomponius Mela, a geographer for the Roman Empire, formalized the climatic zone system.

In 43 and 77 AD the Roman authors Pomponius Mela and Pliny the Elder referred to the seven islands they call Haemodae and Acmodae respectively, both of which are assumed to be Shetland.

* Pomponius Mela formalizes the climatic zone system.

* Pomponius Mela writes De situ orbis, a geography of the Earth.

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In the 1st century A. D., after the idea of a spherical Earth superseded the original Counter-Earth theory, Pomponius Mela, a Latin cosmographer, developed an updated version of the idea, wherein a spherical Earth must have a more or less balanced distribution of land and water.

Cape Verde may be referred to in the works " De choreographia " by Pomponius Mela ( died 45 CE / AD ) and " Historia naturalis " by Pliny the Elder ( died 79 CE / AD ).

Lake Constance was first mentioned by the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela about 43AD.

* Pomponius Mela, De chorographia II. 26

* Pomponius Mela ( 1st century AD ), geographer

The Ems was known to several ancient authors: Pliny the Elder in Natural History ( 4. 14 ), Tacitus in the Annals ( Book 1 ), Pomponius Mela ( 3. 3 ), Strabo and Ptolemy, Geography ( 2. 10 ).

The geographers Strabo and Pomponius Mela describe a cold land populated by extremely fierce inhabitants, where, despite the coldness, the grazing for cattle was lush.

He brought out the 2nd edition of Perizonius's Origines Babylonicae et Aegyptiacae ( 1736 ) and his commentary on Pomponius Mela ( 1736 – 1737 ).

The dissertation was generally regarded as conclusive, although Isaac Vossius published an angry and scurrilous reply to it in the appendix to his edition of Pomponius Mela.

According to Ptolemy's map, they lived in Jutland, which is in agreement with Pomponius Mela, who placed them in Scandinavia ( Codanonia ).

The ancient grammarian Simmias of Rhodes in the 3rd century BC connected the Hyperboreans to the Massagetae and Posidonius in the 1st century BC to the Western Celts, but Pomponius Mela placed them even further north in the vicinity of the Arctic.

The greater part is taken from Pliny's Natural History and the geography of Pomponius Mela.

Golding translated also the Commentaries of Caesar ( 1563, 1565, 1590 ), the history of Junianus Justinus ( 1564 ), the theological writings of Niels Hemmingsen ( 1569 ) and David Chytraeus ( 1570 ), Theodore Beza's Tragedie of Abrahams Sacrifice ( 1575 ), the De Beneficiis of Seneca the Younger ( 1578 ), the geography of Pomponius Mela ( 1585 ), Calvin's commentaries on the Psalms ( 1571 ), his sermons on the Galatians and Ephesians, on Deuteronomy and the book of Job.

Description of Europe by Pomponius Mela

Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest Roman geographer.

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* Titus Pomponius Atticus, Roman nobleman of the Equestrian order ( b. 109 BC )

The Roman geographer Pomponius Mela placed Thule north of Scythia.

* Enchiridion of Sextus Pomponius, a collection of Roman law by Sextus Pomponius

The Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas is a particularly fine ancient Roman example, rich in frescoes, decorations and precious mosaics.

* Titus Pomponius Atticus ( 112 / 109 BC – 35 / 32 BC ), ancient Roman littérateur / philosopher

The Roman geographer Pomponius Mela ( 2, i ) and the historian Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century AD, also list the Agathyrsi among the steppe tribes.

Suel was identified by the Roman historian, Pomponius Mela, as one of the towns of the coast, and was cited by Pliny in the 1st century AD as a fortified town or oppidum.

Pomponius Mela, the first Roman geographer, asserted that the earth had two habitable zones, a North and South one, but that it would be impossible to get into contact with each other because of the unbearable heat at the equator.

Under the Roman dominion, Aegilium Insula or Igillia Insula it was an important base in the Tyrrhenian Sea, and was cited briefly by Julius Caesar in his De Bello Civili, by Pliny, by Pomponius Mela, and by the fifth-century AD poet Rutilius Claudius Namatianus, who celebrated Igilium's successful repulse of the Getae and safe harbor for Romans, in a time when Igilium's slopes were still wooded:

Titus Pomponius Atticus, born Titus Pomponius ( 112 / 109 BC – 35 / 32 BC ), came from an old but not strictly noble Roman family of the equestrian class and the Gens Pomponia.

The island was also referred to as " Cauda " by Roman geographer Pomponius Mela, and as " Gaudos " by Pliny.

* The Roman Mausoleum ( sometimes said to be of Pomponius Graecinus, but on no satisfactory grounds )

This usage was followed by Roman writers such as Ovid, Tibullus, Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, Dio Chrysostom, Statius, Plutarch as well as Roman Judean writers Philo of Alexandria and Josephus.

She was the daughter of the consul Manius Pomponius Matho, consul in 233 BC ( who appears to have died in 211 BC ), and was married possibly around 237 BC to Publius Cornelius Scipio, second surviving son of the Roman censor Lucius Cornelius Scipio of a prominent patrician family.

Pomponia was a Roman woman, who flourished in the first century BC and was an only sister to Roman Knight and Cicero ’ s friend Titus Pomponius Atticus.

The Roman commander, Lucius Pomponius ( Secundus ) used cavalry from the Vangiones and the Nemetes as well as regular Roman cavalry to attack the sleeping Chatti in their open camps by night.

It followed in the tradition of earlier geographies, such as Strabo's Geographica, Pomponius Mela's De situ orbis, Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia, and the Antonine Itinerary.

The Indians and Scythians occupy the two extremities, the Seres are in the middle " ( Pomponius Mela, De Situ Orbis, I, 2 ).

The Seres come between the two ; a race eminent for integrity, and well known for the trade which they allow to be transacted behind their backs, leaving their wares in a desert spot " ( Pomponius Mela, De Situ Orbis, III, 7 ).

:* Extracts from Pomponius Mela " De Situ Orbis "

* Pomponius Mela's De Situ Orbis ( Latin )

The name is cited dozens of times in several classical authors, but most of the references are non-definitive, e. g., The Hercynian Forest is Pomponius Mela's silvis ac paludibus invia, " trackless forest and swamps " ( Mela, De Chorographia, iii. 29 ), as the author is assuming the reader would know where the forest is.