Mela, POMPONIUS, the first Latin writer who composed a strictly geographical work, was born at Tingentera in the south of Spain, and lived in the time of the Emperor Claudius; nothing else is known concerning him. His work, an unsystematic compendium, is in three books, and is entitled De Situ Orbis. The text is greatly corrupted. The editio princeps appeared at Milan in 1471; the best modern edition is that by Parthey (Berlin, 1867).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 123–124
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