[24] The Macro´bii, so called by the Greeks because they were reputed to live 120 years or more, were a tribe of extraordinary strength and stature dwelling southward from Egypt. Some suppose them to have been ancestors of the Somauli, near Cape Guardafui, while others place them on the left bank of the Nile, in what is now Nubia. Their prisoners were said to be fettered with golden chains, because gold with them was more abundant and cheaper than iron. The bodies of their dead were inclosed in columns of glass or crystal.
[27] [See § 11.] Also, Darius’s own account of the Imposture of the Magus, [p. 87].
[28] He was probably contemporary with Abraham.
[29] See Esther i: 1-4.
[30] One of these repasts cost half a million of dollars.