Mela Definition

Mela Sentence Examples

• The first hint to reach Europe concerning the existence of habitable lands to the eastward of the Ganges is to be found in the writings of Pomponius Mela

• Tumuli, too, are found throughout northern Africa, the"most celebrated being that near Cherchel, the Kubr-er-Rumia (" tomb of the Christian lady "), which was regarded by Pomponius Mela as the royal burying-place of the kings of Numidia.

• Pomponius Mela says that the Cimbri and Teutones dwelt on the Sinus Codanus, the latter also in Scandinavia (or Sweden).

• In Mela we find the Druids teaching in the depths of a forest or in caverns.

• The greater part is taken from Pliny's Natural History and the geography of Pomponius Mela.