Mela
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Roman geographer cited on ancient navigation near the Arabian gulf.
For a great part of that sea near Morocco, which is in dispute, had already been navigated long before, and the sea as far east as the Arabian gulf has been made famous by the victories of Alexander the Great, as both Pliny and Mela tell us.
The Law of Torts
Roman jurist whose opinion on the barber/ball-game scenario is reported by Ulpian in the Digest.
Item Mela scribit, si, cum pila quidam luderent, vehementius quis pila percussa in tonsoris manus eam deiecerit et sic servi quem tonsor habebat [al.
Mela seems to have thought it a question of fact, to be determined by closer examination of the circumstances, whether the barber, or the player, or both, were in culpa.