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of Zeus the lord of oracles, but deceivers, to the end that men whose thought passes their utterance might be subject to the gods and suffer harm -- Aethiopians and
Libyans and mare-milking Scythians. For verily Epaphus was the child of the almighty Son of Cronos, and from him sprang the dark Libyans, and high-souled Aethiopians, and the Underground-folk and feeble Pygmies. All these are the offspring of the lord, the Loud-thunderer.
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Colchians to be part of Sesostris' army. I myself guessed it to be so, partly because they are dark-skinned and woolly-haired; though that indeed goes for nothing, seeing that other peoples, too, are such; but my better proof was that the Colchians and Egyptians and Ethiopians are the only nations that have from the first practised circumcision”.
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220:(Book 3, Chapter 3), mentions Egyptians were believed to have descended from a colony of Aethiopians. He recounts a story that attributes the origins of Egyptian civilization to migrations from the south, specifically from regions referred to by the Greeks as "Aethiopia," which in this context corresponds to
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1305:For all references to Ethiopia in Herodotus, see:
1195:Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert. "Aithiops".
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2015:African Great Lakes
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1102:Etymologicum Magnum
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2615:Mittelafrika
2565:Françafrique
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2430:Pepper Coast
2268:Middle Egypt
2122:Gulf of Aden
2097:Danakil Alps
2035:Gregory Rift
1864:. Retrieved
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51:verification
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2600:Middle East
2545:Afromontane
2507:Niger Delta
2502:Niger Basin
2495:Dahomey Gap
2450:Cape Palmas
2445:Ivory Coast
2440:Slave Coast
2293:Upper Egypt
2263:Lower Nubia
2258:Lower Egypt
2233:Nile Valley
1967:Congo Basin
1962:Pool Malebo
1326:Herodotus.
908:, his wife
592:Cambyses II
538:Elephantine
468:Indus River
454:In 515 BC,
73:"Aethiopia"
2687:Categories
2550:Arab world
2524:Yorubaland
2435:Gold Coast
2360:Maputaland
2350:Nama Karoo
2340:Thembuland
2288:The Sudans
2273:Nile Delta
2238:Nile Delta
2154:Madagascar
1972:Chad Basin
1940:Cape Lopez
1866:2023-10-19
1840:2023-10-13
1688:0253332699
1619:20 January
1592:Egyptians.
1586:2023-10-13
1562:0852550928
1499:1556520727
1473:20 January
1347:Herodotus
1262:20 January
1205:2 December
1181:2024-09-26
1113:References
1028:Burnt-face
910:Cassiopeia
898:, King of
833:Mozambique
824:Geographia
756:Hephaestus
729:Alexandria
664:Esarhaddon
634:Siwa Oasis
536:as far as
445:Esarhaddon
308:burnt-face
158:Macrobians
84:newspapers
2620:Negroland
2540:Aethiopia
2410:False Bay
2087:Al-Habash
2072:Serengeti
2050:Kavirondo
1761:161751649
1745:0022-2968
1366:Histories
1349:Histories
1307:this list
1282:, 984–85.
1201:. Perseus
1134:XXIII.206
1007:Αἰθιοπεύς
991:Αἰθιοπῆες
914:Andromeda
798:Egyptians
790:Aristotle
658:) listed
622:elephants
601:) of the
566:Psamtik I
526:Herodotus
514:Histories
377:Αἰθιοπῆες
316:red-brown
304:noun form
250:Aithiopia
240:Etymology
226:Herodotus
185:Aithiopía
179:romanized
166:Aethiopia
154:thiopians
146:Herodotus
142:inhabited
2365:Highveld
2355:Bushveld
2323:Rhodesia
2226:Ifriqiya
2092:Barbaria
1950:Igboland
1702:Arrian.
1292:Hesiod,
1279:Theogony
1277:Hesiod,
1098:"Αἰθίοψ"
924:See also
896:Emathion
815:Periplus
811:littoral
772:Eusebius
766:and the
558:Dionysus
540:(modern
501:Skiapods
460:Darius I
441:Assyrian
394:to meet
371:Αἰθίοπες
272:compound
267:Aithíops
255:Αἰθιοπία
234:Ethiopia
174:Αἰθιοπία
164:Ancient
21:Ethiopia
2243:Bashmur
2201:Maghreb
2132:Red Sea
1945:Mayombe
1920:Central
1908:Regions
1352:III.114
1309:at the
1158:V.282-7
1150:I.22-23
1147:Odyssey
1030:, i.e.
850:Colchis
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