Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia
Book 2, chapter 67
idem nepos de septentrionali circuitu tradit quinto metello celeri, afrani in consulatu collegae, sed tum galliae proconsuli, indos a rege sueborum dono datos, qui ex india commercii causa navigantes tempestatibus essent in germaniam abrepti.
My Render
Likewise, about a northern passage Cornelius Nepos cites Quintus Metellus Celer, a consular colleague of Lucius Afranius, yet in fact when proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul, a Swabian ruler gave a gift
made by of Hindi, as when
shipped sailing from India
as to trade,
it they wrecked upon Germany, due to storms.
Bostock
The same Cornelius Nepos, when speaking of the northern circumnavigation, tells us that Q. Metellus Celer, the colleague of L. Afranius in the consulship, but then a proconsul in Gaul, had a present made to him by a king of the Suevi, of certain Indians, who sailing from India for the purpose of commerce, had been driven by tempests into Germany.
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