title: Aelian: Historical Miscellany (Loeb Classical Library No. 486)
author:  Aelian 
description: Classicists no longer have an excuse not to check a citation in Aelian, and a general reader who wants to find out what a bedside book from antiquity might have looked like has the means ready to hand...Aelian's Greek can be quite tricky and with his translation Wilson puts us further in his debt: besides being clear and accurate it is often sprightly and even eloquent.<b><i></i></b><b>A. J. Podlecki</b><b>, </b><b><i>Scholia</i></b><br /><br />Aelian's <i>Historical Miscellany (Varia Historia)</i> is mainly a potpourri of historical, literary, and other information concerning the Greek past...which apparently entertained educated readers [of the 3rd century] as well as provided them with <i>exempla</i>. Wilson gives us a smooth and very readable translation, syntactically reflecting Aelian's 'studied simplicity.'"<b><i></i></b><b>Robert J. Penella</b><b>, </b><b><i>Religious Studies Review</i></b>
zlib_text: THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY
  FOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB, LL.D.
  EDITED BY
  E. H. WARMINGTON,
  m.a., f.b.hist.soc.
  FORMER EDITORS
  fT.
  E. PAGE,
  C.H., LiTT.D.
  fE. CAPPS, ph.d., ll.d.
  tW. H. D. ROUSE,
  LITT.D.
  L.
  A. POST,
  l.h.d.
  DIODORUS OF SICILY
  II
  303
  
  DIODOEUS OF SICILY
  IN TWELVE VOLUMES
  II
  BOOKS
  II
  {continued)
  35-IV,
  58
  WITH AN EXGLISH TRANSLATION
  BY
  C. H. OLDFATHER
  PROFESSOR OP AKCIENT HISTORY AND LANGUAGES,
  THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBR.\SKA
  LONDON
  WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD
  CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
  HARVARD
  UNIVERSITY
  PRESS
  MOMLXVn
  
  y
  rn
  0-4
  .^5^7/
  First printed 1935
  Reprinted 1953, 1961, 1967
  Printed in Great Britain
  
  CONTENTS
  PAGE
  INTRODUCTION TO
  BOOKS
  II,
  35-IV, 58
  .
  .
  .
  vii
  BOOK
  II
  (continued)
  1
  BOOK
  III
  85
  BOOK
  IV, 1-58
  335
  A PARTIAL INDEX OF PROPER NAMES ....
  535
  MAPS
  1.
  ASIA
  At end
  2. AEGYPTUS-ETHIOPIA
  „
  
  INTRODUCTION
  Books II, 35-IV, 58
  Book
  II, 35^2
  is devoted to a brief description
  of
  India
  which
  was
  ultimately
  derived
  from
  Megasthenes.
  Although Diodorus does not mention
  this
  author,
  his
  use
  of 