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.

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In the 1st century A. D., after the idea of a spherical Earth superseded the original Counter-Earth theory, Pomponius Mela, a Latin cosmographer, developed an updated version of the idea, wherein a spherical Earth must have a more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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He also mentions a longer Life of Cato at the end of the extant Life of Cato, written at the request of Titus Pomponius Atticus.

The use of gripping and exciting narrative and the immediacy gained from the frequent use of direct speech are thought to be among Bacchylides's best qualities, influencing later poets such as Horace ( who imitated him, according to Pomponius Porphyrion, in Carmen I.

But Pomponius is unique among ancient geographers in that, after dividing the earth into five zones, of which two only were habitable, he asserts the existence of antichthones, inhabiting the southern temperate zone inaccessible to the folk of the northern temperate regions from the unbearable heat of the intervening torrid belt.

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.

Although Turkic languages may have been spoken as early as 600 BC, the first mention of the ethnonym " Turk " may date from Herodotus ' ( c. 484-425 BCE ) reference to " Targitas "; furthermore, during the first century CE, Pomponius Mela refers to the " Turcae " in the forecasts north of the Sea of Azov, and Pliny the Elder lists the " Tyrcae " among the people of the same area.

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.

The gap indicates a corruption in the text and the original wording probably testified to two books, though the only source we have for this number was the grammarian Pomponius Porphyrion.

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 ).

The statement of Pomponius Porphyrion, the old commentator on Horace, that Florus himself wrote satires, is probably erroneous, but he may have edited selections from the earlier satirists ( Ennius, Lucilius, Varro ).

19 ) and Pomponius Mela ( i. 116 ) speak of " Tyrcae " it is also probably due to a false correction.

Aurelian's colleague as consul was another such man, Pomponius Bassus, a member of one of the oldest senatorial families, as was one of the consuls in 272, Junius Veldumnianus.

According to Plutarch, Numa was the youngest of Pomponius ' four sons, born on the day of Rome's founding ( traditionally, 21 April 753 BC ).

In 1462 he was sent to Rome, where he studied under Pomponius Laetus and Theodorus Gaza.

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.

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.

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:

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

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 .".

Descended from a family of equestrian rank, Pomponius was born and raised in Rome, the son of Titus Pomponius and wife Caecilia Metella.