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, Roman geographer, writes De situ orbis libri ( probable date ).

* Pomponius Mela formalizes the climatic zone system.

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

IV 85 ), called the " immense sea " by Pomponius Mela ( lib.

In the 1st century A. D., after the idea of a spherical Earth superseded the original Counter-Earth theory, Pomponius Mela, a Latin cosmographer, developed an updated version of the idea, wherein a spherical Earth must have a more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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The name ' Evodia ' may in turn originate from the seven ' Haemodae ' of uncertain identification in Pliny's Natural History ( IV 16 ( 30 ) or Pomponius Mela's Chronographia ( III 6, 54 ).

According to Pomponius, a lawyer who lived during the 2nd century AD, the position of tresviri monetalis was established in 289 BC, but this date seems to be far too early, and if they did not come into existence during the Second Punic War, the formation of a formal college may not have occurred until some time after 200 BC The three members of this committee were officially known as the " tres viri aere argento auro flando feriundo " (" the three men responsible for casting and striking bronze, silver and gold "), a lengthy title that was almost always abbreviated to " III. V. A. A. A. F. F .".

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 ).

Pomponius Bassus ( 220-after 271 ), had one child

Other authors gave Numa in addition five sons, Pompo ( or Pomponius ), Pinus, Calpus, Mamercus and Numa, from whom the noble families ( gentes ) of the Pomponi, Pinarii, Calpurnii, Aemilii, and Pompilii respectively traced their descent.

* Titus Pomponius Atticus ( 112 / 109 – 35 / 32 ), publisher and correspondent of Cicero

* Sextus Pomponius ( 2nd century AD ), jurist

Hody's Oxford dissertation of 1685 provoked an " angry and scurrilous reply " from Isaac Vossius ( 1618 – 1689 ), who had been librarian to Queen Christina of Sweden, in the appendix to his Observations on Pomponius Mela, 1686, to which Hody conclusively replied in notes to his reprint of 1705.

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

* Academia Romana ( Italy ), an Italian academy established in the 15th Century by Julius Pomponius Laetus

He was a friend of Catullus, who dedicates his poems to him ( I. 3 ), Cicero and Titus Pomponius Atticus.

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.

She bore him a son of the same name, Titus Pomponius Atticus ( little is known of him ), as well as a daughter, Caecilia Pomponia Attica, who became the first wife of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.

The jurist Sextus Pomponius said, " At the beginning of our city, the people began their first activities without any fixed law, and without any fixed rights: all things were ruled despotically, by kings ".

10, v. 49-50 ( commented by Pomponius Porphyrion, Helenius Acron and the scholiast of Cruquius );

* The Life and Death of Pomponius Atticus written by his contemporary and acquaintance Cornelius Nepos ; Translated out of his fragments, together with observations political and moral thereon ( 1677 );

The next generation of humanists were bolder admirers of pagan culture, especially in the highly personal academy of Pomponius Leto, the natural son of a nobleman of the Sanseverino family, born in Calabria but known by his academic name, who devoted his energies to the enthusiastic study of classical antiquity, and attracted a great number of disciples and admirers.

Yet another hypothesis for reconciling the numbers cited by Livy for combined strength of the two consular armies and the actual number of participants in the battle of the Trebia would be that Sempronius detached part of his allied contingents for garrison duty on Sicily and for naval service with Marcus Aemilius and Sextus Pomponius.

Gaius, taking no part in the fighting and despairing at the bloodshed, fled to the Temple of Diana on the Aventine where he intended to commit suicide but was stopped by his friends Pomponius and Licinius.

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

On the other hand, Porcia was highly favoured with the followers of both Pompey and Cato, so the marriage was favoured by people such as Marcus Tullius Cicero and Titus Pomponius Atticus.

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.

He also referred to Pomponius Mela's description of Codanonia ( called Scatinavia by Pliny the Elder ) which was located in the Codanian Gulf ( probably Kattegat ).

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:

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