Cosmas

Cosmas, surnamed Indicopleustes, a merchant of Alexandria, who lived in the middle of the 6th century, and after having travelled much, returned to Egypt, where in monastic retirement he wrote in Greek a work of greater interest than value, in twelve books, on Christian Topography, extending to countries as far as India. An annotated translation of the work was edited in 1898 for the Hakluyt Society by Dr M'Cindle.