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Dionysius of Charax

CHARAX (Ancient city) TAVRIS
Dionysius. Of Charax, in Susiana on the Arabian gulf, lived in the time of Augustus, who sent him to the east that he might record all the exploits of his grandson on his Parthian and Arabian expedition. (Plin. H. N vi. 31.)

A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith)
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