[230] Tineh.
[231] But the immortals will send you to the Elysian plain, and the boundaries of the earth. Odyssey iv. 563.
[232] But ever does the ocean send forth the gently blowing breezes of the west wind. Odyssey iv. 567.
[233] Odyssey iv. 73. See Strabo’s description of electrum, Book iii. c. ii. § 8.
[234] Blessed.
[235] The name of Arabia Felix is now confined to Yemen. A much larger territory was anciently comprehended under this designation, containing the whole of Hedjaz, and even Nedjed-el-Ared. It is probable that Strabo here speaks of Hedjaz, situated about two days’ journey south of Mecca.
[236] Iliad xi. 20.
[237] Of the Mediterranean.
[238] Philæ was built on a little island formed by the Nile, now called El-Heif.
[239] This is evidently Strabo’s meaning; but the text, as it now stands, is manifestly corrupt.