SEMANTHINI MONTES
SEMANTHINI MONTES (
τὸ Σημανθινὸν ὄρος,
Ptol. 7.2.8), a mountain chain in the country of the Sinae (
China), which, according to Ptolemy, extended from the sources of the Aspithra in a NW. direction as far as those of the Serus.
It is probably the chain which separates the Chinese province of
Yunnan from the districts of
Mien and
Laotschua. [
T.H.D]