Sonus
Sōnus, i, m., = Σῶνος,
- a river of India, a branch of the Ganges, Plin. 6, 18, 22, § 65.
3 Sōnus, ī, m. , affluent du Gange : Plin. 6, 65.
SONUS
SONUS(Σῶνος, Arrian, Ind. 100.4; Plin. Nat. 6.18. s. 22), a principal affluent of the Ganges, which flows in a NE. direction to it from the Vindhya Mountains. Its modern name is Soane. There is no doubt that it has been contracted from the Sanscrit Suvarna, golden. The Soas (Σῶαςof Ptolemy (Ptol. 7.1.30) is certainly the same river.
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