The corpus record — Latin

Pădaei

Pădaei · m

a people of farther India

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What it meant

Pădaei — Lewis & Short

Pădaei, ōrum, m.,

I a people of farther India, at the mouth of the Indus. Acc. to Herodotus (3,99) they were cannibals.— Sing. collect.: vicinus Phoebo tenet arva Padaeus, Tib. 15, 1, 145.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.