[430] According to Herodotus, Sesostris was the only Egyptian monarch who ever reigned in Ethiopia. Pliny says he penetrated as far as the promontory of Mosylon.
[431] Veneti.
[432] A small people of Thessaly, who latterly dwelt near Mount Œta, which separated them from Ætolia and Phocis.
[433] A city and plain in Thessaly, near to Mount Ossa.
[434] A people of Macedon, at the time of Strabo dwelling north of the river Peneius.
[435] Few nations have wandered so far and wide as the Galatæ. We meet with them in Europe, Asia, and Africa, under the various names of Galatæ, Galatians, Gauls, and Kelts. Galatia, in Asia Minor, was settled by one of these hordes.
[436] There were many kings of Phrygia of this name.
[437] The text of Kramer follows most MSS. in reading “Kimmerians,” but he points it out as a manifest error; and refers to Herodotus i. 103.
[438] By Hyperboreans are meant people who dwelt beyond the point from whence the north wind proceeded: Hypernotii therefore should be those who lived beyond the point of the procession of the south wind. The remark of Herodotus will be found, lib. iv. § 36. It is simply this: Supposing Hyperboreans, there ought likewise to be Hypernotii.
[439] Those who exult over the misfortunes of their neighbours.