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Palladius Helenopolitanus (ca. 363-ca. 425 CE)

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  • Epistola de Indicis Gentibus et de Bragmanibus.
    • Palladius was a Christian who journeyed to India by an uncertain route in the company of Moses, Bishop of Adulis (a town on the Red Sea). This work contains an account of a Theban named Scholasticus who was enslaved in Taprobane (Ceylon) for several years. P.R. Coleman-Norton, The Authorship of the Epistola de Indicis Gentibus et de Bragmanibus, Classical Philology, vol. 21, no. 2 (April 1926), pp. 154-160.
    • There was a Palladius Rutilius who composed a work called Liber de agricultura, probably in the 4th century CE.
    • Fifth-century bishop of Helenopolis. Bray, Oeconomy, p. 448.