Quote Originally Posted by Finn MacCumhail View Post
Pliny refers that the Roman merchants, incited by good earnings, found a very short way for India across Nile River, the Red Sea and the Arabic Desert; the whole run was completed in ninetyfour days.

Isn't it against their mentality?
Well it's a "shores" route and as merchant class goes, I don't know how high in the roman society they were, if they were "citizen" of the Italian peninsula ok, otherwise they could have been roman subjects...