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Αἰθίοπες. For Cambyses' conquests and the Ethiopian gifts cf c. 17 n.

Nysa, the birthplace of Osiris, is placed by Diodorus (i. 15) in Arabia Felix; here and in ii. 146. 2 it seems to be in the Upper Nile valley; cf. Hom. Hymn. i. 8 σχεδὸν Αἰγύπτοιο ῥοάων. Stein identifies it with Gebal Barkal, the ‘holy mountain’, near the Fourth Cataract and Meroe. The legends of Dionysus place it also in Greece, India, and elsewhere. It seems better to connect οἵ with the main subject, ‘the Ethiopians near Egypt,’ not with ‘the long-lived Ethiopians’.

σπέρματι: cf. 101. 2; for the Callatiae cf. c. 38.

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