Ganges, A greate riuer that deuideth India, called in holie Scripture Philon, one of the foure riuers which come out of Paradise. Iosephus, doth interprete it Inundation. The breadth thereof (as Solinus writeth) is in the narrowest place eight miles in the brodest twentie iniles. Arrianus writeth, that where it is narrowrst, it is in breadth . furlongs, which is eight miles. In manie places it spreadeth so mide, that where the ground is most plaine, nor any high place appeareth, no man maye descerne any thing on the o ther sid. In the shalowest place it is 100, foote deepe. There runneth into it seauenteene great riuers, euery of them ableto beare a shippe. In this riuer of Ganges is an Ile, and therin a great citie, called Palvbotra, the country is named Phrasia, the king whereof, as Plinie writeth. lib. 6. cap. 19. hath always in his wages, 600000, footemen, 30000. horse, men. and 9000, Oliphants.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Ganges, is, m., = *ga/gghs, the river Ganges, in India, Mel. 3, 7, 5 sq.; Plin. 6, 17, 21, 60 sq.; Cic. Rep. 6, 20; Verg. G. 2, 137; Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 23; id. M. 2, 249; 4, 21 al. —II. Derivv. A. Gangētĭcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Ganges, found in the Ganges: tigris, Ov. M. 6, 636: aves, Col. 8, 8, 10: pubes, Sil. 3, 612: raptor, i. e.
a tiger-hunter
, Mart. 8, 26, 1: ales, i. e.
a phœnix
, Aus. Idyll. 11, 16; 20, 9.—B. Gangētis, ĭdis, adj., the same: terra, i. e.