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===Arrian===
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|'''<small>Name-reference</small>'''
|<small>Arrian 5.4</small>
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|'''<small>Modern reference</small>'''
|<small>De Sélincourt 1971: 260</small>
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|'''<small>Location of the mine</small>'''
|<small>India</small>
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'''Description-Interpretation:''' Arrian also describes the gold-digging ants of India and the gold-guarding griffons, but is not really convinced that they exist: ‘Queer things have been invented for diversion rather than as serious history, in the belief that none of the absurd stories they tell about India are likely to be brought to the test of truth.’ He further writes that Alexander and his men have debunked these stories and that India, in fact, has no gold, ‘except in a few cases where they themselves were guilty of invention’.
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'''Comments:''' Herodotus (3.102–05), Pliny (''Naturalis Historia'' XXXIII.21) and Strabo (15.1.37/44/69 and 16.5.15) all described the gold-digging ants with varying degrees of belief.
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