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^{page 681 note 2} J.R.A.S., 1904, pp. 591–638.Google Scholar

^{page 682 note 1} The Provinces of the Roman Empire, ii, 300.Google Scholar Cf. Merivale, , History of the Romans under the Empire, viii, 352.Google Scholar

^{page 682 note 2} The visit of envoys to Augustus at Tarrago in B.C. 27 is only reported by Orosius, vi, 21, and is not usually accepted (Merivale, , iv, 118Google Scholar). But the visit at Samos in B.C. 19 is referred to by Dio, , liv, 9Google Scholar, and Strabo, , xv, i, p. 720,Google Scholar and is accepted by all modern authorities, e.g. Shuckburgh, , Augustus, p. 179.Google Scholar The Monumentum refers to several visits, c. 31, where see Mommsen's note. This must mean more than one petty embassy, as suggested in Duff, , Chronology of India, p. 19.Google Scholar

^{page 682 note 3} He tried to create a direct route between India and Egypt instead of viâ Arabia (Momrasen, , op. cit., ii, 290 seq.).Google Scholar

^{page 683 note 1} It was thence that Sarmanochegas came with the embassy to Augustus. Cf. Bombay Gazetteer, i, i, 536.Google Scholar

^{page 683 note 2} Cf. Sewell, , p. 596.Google Scholar The Homerites of Arabia modelled their coins on silver coins of Augustus, but on a Babylonian basis (Mommsen, , ii, 288).Google Scholar