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The Ethiopians above Egypt and the Arabians had Arsames for commander, while the Ethiopians of the east1 (for there were two kinds of them in the army) served with the Indians; they were not different in appearance from the others, only in speech and hair: the Ethiopians from the east are straight-haired, but the ones from Libya have the woolliest hair of all men.

1 For these see Hdt. 3.94. The “eastern Ethiopians” were apparently in or near Beluchistan.

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