The Collaborative International Dictionary
Megasthene
Megasthene \Meg"as*thene\, n. [Gr. me`gas great + sqe`nos strength.] (Zo["o]l.) One of a group which includes the higher orders of mammals, having a large size as a typical characteristic.
Usage examples of "megasthene".
Not long afterward, the ants turn up again in an account by Megasthenes, who was the Greek ambassador to a royal court in Bengal from 3o6 to 298 BC.
Megasthenes, an historian of repute in the days of Seleucus Nicanor, and who wrote particularly upon India, speaking of the philosophy of the ancients respecting natural things, puts the Brachmans and the Jews precisely on the same footing.